The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-11
WILLIAM POOLE'S WIDOWS
The First Relief to Contend
With the Second for the
Property.
A Claimant From Ireland Says She
and Her Son Are the Only
True Heirs.

The spirit of new and hitherto un-
known widow, whose claims come all the
way from the shores OF Ireland, hovers
over the dollars which William C. Poole
managed to lay away during his lifetime.
His presumed widow, presumed because
she was living with him for thirty-five years
before he died, is now in charge OF his
estate as his Administrative. The other
widow appears in a petition to revoke the
letters granted to her whom she styles a
fraudulent claimant, and grant them to
herself, who, she alleges, is the only true
and proper person under the circum-
stances.
William Poole, an Irishman, died in this
City September "a. 1894, leaving an estate
afterward appraised at $29,576. He left no
will, and Mary Poole, to whom he had
been married in New York thirty-five
years before, applied for letters of admins
tration, alleging at the time that the entire
estate was community property. Letters
were granted to her October "a, 1894.
The first linking of any other claimants
to Poole's estate came in the filing of a
few typewriter lines some weeks ago by
Charles Z. Wilson, an attorney of this
City, in which he states that he repre-
sented the only true heirs to the estate,
Mrs. Maria Poole and her son Wesley
Poole, and he appeared to prosecute their
claims This has been followed with the
paper filed yesterday, in which the lady
from far away Dublin outlines what she
wants, and what she thinks of the Mrs.
Poole who, she says, is not. Among other
things she says, through her representa-
tive, that the said person procured said
letters of administration by fraudulent and
untrue representations in this: That the
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the surviving widow OF the said Will
liam Poole, when in truth and in fact she
was and is not the surviving widow of
the said decedent. nor in any way related
to him, and has no interest whatsoever in
said estate; that by falsely representing her
self to be the surviving widow of said de-
ceased she commits a fraud against the es-
tate of said William Poole, deceased; that
the surviving widow of the said William
Poole is one Maria Poole, who now lives in
Dublin, Ireland.
In support of their case the attorneys for
Mrs. Poole of Dublin, have a letter sent to
them by Wesley Poole, and purporting to
be communication from William Poole
to Wesley, his son, and mentioning a re-
mittance which was inclose0. This is one
of the principal features of the case. There
is also another, a tale of the romance be-
tween butler in a prominent Dublin
family, and the chambermaid who worked
in the same residence, and how when their
attachment was detected they were ex-
PEELED from their positions and then fed
to America, she from her home and people,
he from his wife and son.
Mrs. Poole, who lives in this City. says
she knows nothing about any other widow,
and the first int1mation she had that any
one in Ireland knew of him or claimed a
relationship, was during this litigation.
She was married to Poole, SO her petition
they have worked together in various
places mostly in San Francisco, she as cook
and he as butler, and all his wealth has
been accumulated since they were together
In her petition, Mrs Maria Poole of
Dublin neglects to state the date of her
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