The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
That's What the Unrelenting
Kentucky Blythes Say as
They Fight On.
WILL BATTLE FOR YEARS.
Boswell Blythe Comes and Talks
About the New Suit in the
Federal Courts.

Boswell M. Blythe arrived from Los
Angeles yesterday and proceeded to look
after the new fight against Mrs. Florence
Hinckley's possession of the Blythe
millions that has been begun in the
United States Circuit Court.
He says that no seventeen-story sky
scraper will go up on the Blythe block
right away and that instead of the fight
over the Blythe estate being practically
ended by FIorences recent final victory in
the State courts it has only taken a new
and fresh start in larger career.
Mr.. Blythe and his brother, John w.
Blythe of Kentucky, are the two active
ones of the seventeen Kentucky Blythe
claimants, who have long now been prac-
tcally the only fighters in the field.
Boswell Blythe's father, BANKER at
Downey, Los Angeles County, died a few
months ago leaving an estate of $500 900,
and John w. Blythe is well off. so that
there is plenty of money as well as deter
mination to back S. W. and E. Burke Hol-
laday in their unrelenting fight.
''We propose to fight this case for twenty
years, if necessary; or as long as one Of us
lives" said Mr.. Blythe last night. 1--WE
have money enough 60 fight fer a while
and there will be no let-up. We know
that we are the legitimate, natural heirs
of Thomas II. Blythe, that Florence
Blythe was the daughter of Joseph Ash
croft and that the plaintiffs case was one
of fraud clear through.
"Fhis suit that has been filed in the
Federal court is one to quiet title. and it
forces them to show that they are entitled
to the property. Wedon't know when the
suit will come UP for a hearing OF any
kind, but we are ready any day.
"W II. II. Hart has been talking about
skyscrapers. That's all the ex-Attorney-
Generals gas, and gas don't put UP big
buildings. Who is going to loan the
money to put up history building, or
who will buy the property while the title
is clouded? You see, there'll be no big
building on the Blythe block while we are
in the field
Mr. Blythe says that when the case
comes TO trial in the Circuit Court it will
involve the merits of the whole case. 1t
would be retrial of the case from the
start. There are drayloads OF new evil
dence and a small army of new witnesses
ready for such trial. The Holladays and
the Blythes began digging as soon as
Judge Coffey gave his decision, years ago,
and they have been digging ever since.
John W. Blythe is now in London, where
he has been before, and where two repre-
sentatives have been working for two or
three years, and E. Burke Holiday is
now in the East in the case.
"We have piled up new evidence that
high that Florence was Joe Ashcroft's s
daughter, and it is still accumulating,
says Mr. Blythe. 1--WE have any amount
OF evidence of the fraud and perjury in
the plaintiffs case. and have many new
witnesses ready to come out from England
and Scotland. Before Judge Coffey the
trial occupied 2sS days. In the Fedora |
court it will be big and notable trial. and
it will be full of surprises. 1t will be like
the Sharon case-decided one way in the
State courts and another way in the Fed
eral courts. This case is settled about as
much as the Sharon case was when Sarah
Althea Hill got her judgment in the State
courts. We have done all the fighting for
two or three years, are the only ones who
can fight and you will see US keeping up
the fight"
There is a bright promise that unless a
compromise is reached the Blythe case
will be threshed over again from the time
Thomas H. Blythe flirted with the girl he
saw looking into London bakeshop WIN
dow to the present, and if that happens
the stores Of secret evidence that the Ken
lucky Blythes and the Halladays have
secretly piled up at cost OF many thou
sands will yield some highly interesting
tales.