The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06

com biue with the said AFRO and Miranda IN. Oh
tain entire and exclusive influence and con-
troll over the mind, will and acts of said de-
cedent, and to turn such influence and control
to the accomplishment of his and their own
gains and selfish purposes, and to the prejudice
of petitioner; and in the accomplishment of
this purpose the said Bishop obtained posses-
sion of the said will and testament so as afore-
said made by decedent, from the custodian
thereof, and upon receiving said document
and learning its contents said Bishop
and said AFRO and Miranda conspired and con-
trived to obtain the execution by said decd
ent OF the documents So as aforesaid, admitted
with intent 10 thereby supersede her true will
BY one of their own making, and which would
effect their said purposes; and to that end they
then and there proceeded to poison the mind
of said decedent against petitioner by false
representations, and to exclude him and his
friends. so far as possible, from her society,
and TO keep Der solely under their influence
and control; and to the attainment of that end
they did succeed in preventing your petitioner
from seeing his said mother except at rare in
tervals, and then only for few minutes and
also did succeed in almost entirely excluding
his friends and acquaintance from her pres
ence, and they did thereby deprive her of in
dependent counsel and advice and prevent her
from obtaining the same.
During all this time the said T. B. Bishop and
said AFRO and Miranda, as petitioner is in
formed and believes and AYERS, frequently sug-
gested to said decedent that she should make
another and different will. and importuned
her so to do. until she became entirely submis-
suance of said conspiracy, prepared the said
will dated December 10, 1893, and by the aid
and cooperation of said AFRO and Miranda in
duced said decedent to execute the same and
the said other documents dated January z,
June 5 and June %, 1894, respectively, as
aforesaid.
derstand or comprehend the terms or purport
of said documents or either of them That by
said pretended will and testament the said
Thomas B. Bishop and AFRO N Lewis made
ealvAS aXppntOrS thereof
hereunder for an indefinite and practically
unlimited period, and thereby obtained the
control and exclusive management OF nearly
all the estate of said decedent-and amount
ing in value to over SO, 900, OOO-during the
life of petitioner (unless said pretended will
and testament be revokedl, to their great gain
and benefit; and the said Miranda W. Lewis
was made beneficiary Hereunder as to a
large portion of said estate and The residuary
legatee TO a great part OF the remainder
That, as appears by the said document on
| file herein as aforesaid, and dated December
| 10, 1898, a large portion of the estate of said
| decedent was bequeathed and devised in and
| by said pretended last will and testament to
| saio Miranda W. Lewis, in pursuance of a
fraudulent design on her part TO obtain for Ter
| self as great part as possible of the property
| of said decedent; that, although large part
of the estate of said decedent was devised and
| bequeathed in and by said pretended last will
certain charitable purposes, such requests
were caused to be made by said conspirators
merely for the purpose of Disgusting any
| appearance of the use or exercise of undue
| influence by them upon said decedent in
the making of said pretended last will
and testament and the said document and cod
| icil subsequent thereto, and admitted to pro-
bate as part thereof; and that but for the use
and exercise of said undue influence upon said
| decedent at the times of the making of the doc
| uments constituting said pretended last will
and testament and codcil thereto and each OF
them as aforesaid and the arrangement be-
! tween said decedent and your petitioner which
was caused and procured by said conspirato
as aforesaid, said decedent would have devised
ard bequeathed the most OF her estate to your
petitioner.
Further, Mr.. Potter declares that his
mother was made to believe that in the
new will there was no change regarding
the requests to him, and that Mrs. Lux
was entirely under the control of the al
| legged conspirators.