The morning call., 1895-02-20
SAN JOSE'S Big
WILL CONTEST.
The LATE MILLIONAIRE BARRON'S
WIDOW TELLS OF HER
MARRIAGE.
COURTSHIP THAT WAS BRIEF
PRoPoNENT MAKES A GENERAL De
MAI. OF ALLEGATIONS OF
CONTESTANT.

! SAN JOSE, Feb. 19.-The Barron will con-
test, which was resumed this morning,
| again called out large audience, for it
was the last day of the examination of
Eva Rose Barron, widow of the late mil
honaire and proponent in the case.
Mrs. Barron told of the brief courtships
which ended in her marriage to the mil
lionaire. She told how she met him in
the balmy month of June fourteen years
ago, when he Immediately laid siege to her
heart and hand, captured the cita1el of her
affections ere month had fled and made
her Mrs. Barron.
Mrs. Barron also entered a general de-
NAL to the allegations that she had in any
manner influenced her husband against
his son, the contestant, and that she did
not oppose the visits of the latter to his
father nor seek in any way to estrange
father and son,
Mrs. Barron was calm and self-possessed
when she took the witness-chair this morn
ing. In reply to questions she denied that
she had interfered in her husbands bust
ness affairs during his lifetime, or attempt
ed to influence her husband in making his
will.
Upon cross-examination by Attorney
Delmas Mrs. Barron said she had not
written to George Barron, the contestant
while he was absent for nearly five years in
the East.
During much of this time he was i'll in a
hospital. George Barron was absent from
California from the early part of 1889 to
late in the year 1898, after his father died.
She did not write to George and tell him
of his fathers critical illness and ask him
to come home, supposing that his brother
William would attend to that matter.
She was anxious to have George come
home to see his father before he died, but
she supposed that her husband, who was
very i'll, did not wish to have her write to
George.
Mrs. Barron said she suggested her
mother as guardian of her children, in
case of her death, in the will of 1886. She
did not visit William Barron when he
broke his leg in San Francisco.
She did not know exactly where Will
liam Barron lived in San Francisco, and
had had enough to do to attend to her
own affairs without taking the trouble to
write to George about his fathers critical
condition. She knew Georges address in
the East, but did not attempt to write to
him even when her husband was too low
to write himself.
The physicians told her that Mr. Barron
was liable to die at any time with bad
form of heart disease. There was an ossi-
fication or hardening of the arteries near
the heart.
When did your husband first meet you,
Mrs. Barron? asked Delmas.
Between the Goth and 25th of June,
1881, replied the witness.
"When were you married?"
"On July 81, 1881"
"Was there any correspondence between
you before you metz"
"There was not"
Mrs. Barron said that she made list of
the charity legatees, at her husbands
dictation, for the will in 1892
At the conclusion of the examination of
Mrs. Barron the taking of testimony came
to sudden termination. Both sides rested,
and at the adjournment of court it was
announced that argument in behalf of the
contestant would be opened tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock.