The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
TALK COMPROMISE NOW.
All of the Executors Under the
Trust Will May Not
Contest.
FAIRS MILLIONS AS A BAIT.
Many Propositions for Slice Read
Between the Lines of APP
plicants.
FAIRS MILLIONS AS A BAIT.

When the Fair will comes up in Judge
Slack's court on the 10th inst. there may
be surprise in store for the
public and for one of the execu-
tors. DR.. Marc Livingston, an executor
under the trust will, filed his intention to
qualify as an executor under the holo-
graphic will. There has been quite an
amount of talk about town that Angus
and Crothers would follow the course
adopted by DR.. Livingston.
None of the attorneys will admit any
thing of the sort, but there is widespread
belief that basis for the rumor that such
is their intention exists.
Should such a course be followed it
would leave Bresse and Goodfellow stand
ing alonesin support of the trust will, but
Bresse would in all likelihood be guided in
his action by Angus.
An argument to support the Photographic
will is being advanced by attacking the
trust will on new grounds of public policy:
1t is urged that if the Photographic will
should not be sustained and should the
trust will stand, it would tie up the Fair
millions, prevent their distribution and be
in the line of the English policy of keeping
vast fortunes intact. A system of entail
being impossible IN this country the VAN
derbilt, the Astor, the Gould and other
estates are kept together by other meas
ures, and the trust will would accomplish
the same thing.
Those who support the Photographic will
declare that if Crothers and Angus should
qualify under its terms there would re-
main but two things for Goodfellow to do;
either to make monetary settlement with
the estate and withdraw as an executor, or
to fight the Photographic will.
Mr.. Goodfellow has declared all along
that he would make no settlement on
monetary basis; that he was fighting for
principle and not for revenue, so that, in
any event, there may be a prolonged con-
test
The attorneys for the children seem to
believe DOW that neither Angus, Bresse,
Crothers nor the relatives OF Fair will fight
the Photographic will.
The beneficiaries under the Photographic
will are the same as those who receive
requests under the trust will, and the
amounts bequeathed do not differ greatly.
The Anderson and Crothers families in
herit through the sisters of the late Sena-
tor. There are two brothers, Andrew and
William Fair and James III. Fair, the
nephew, and Jane Lundy, the niece, who
came in for requests.
From the way in which the will was de-
nounced as forgery" declared Charles
Heggerty, one of the attorneys for Charles
Fair, II thought they would be ready to
proceed yesterday. AS they were not ready
to proceed, and as they have examined the
will now, I am inclined to believe that
their doubts of it's genuineness are not
SO strong"
All manner of schemes are on foot to get
little scraps of the Fair estate. Several pri-
vate detectives have gone from attorney to
attorney on the opposing sides with prop
ositions to sell to one the knowledge
claimed to have been obtained from the
other.
knight and Heggerty are in receipt of
communication from Los Angeles, in which
resident of that city, after telling how
valuable his time is, and adding that he
can i'll afford to spend the time to come to
San Francisco, declares that he has i'm
portant documents that he can hand in
person only to the attorneys. He then
offers to come to San Francisco. A de-
mand for revenue is read between the lines.
A mysterious woman, who withheld her
name, volunteered the information that
the Photographic will could not have been
sig he'd at the residence of Mrs. Craven, be-
cause on the date when Fair is said to have
written and signed it, September a. 1894,
she declares that she knows Fair did not
leave his room In the Lick House, because
she was present with him.
The attorneys for the childrenassert that
if the executors fight the Photographic will
they will have TO do so with a possible
financial loss, because if the will is sus-
tanned, they assert that Goodfellow or who
ever enters the contest will have to pay the
expense out OF his own personal property.
Still, in opposition to that have been the
hints that the executors have been pro-
vided with a fund, presumably $500, 600, to
meet Just such an emergency, and when
questioned their attorneys have said, with
significant intonation, that the late Senator
was shrewd business man, and foresaw
just such contingencies.