Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
ONLY COST $4,000.
1t Now Looks as II Edward McMailOH
Was the Son OF His Mother and
Not of His Aunt.

The dispositions have been completed
in the celebrated Ingles ease, and for
warded to San Francisco, Cal, where
the case is pending.
There are five vOlumns of over 800
pages each Of the testimony. The case
will be tried sometime this fall. The
cost of taking the testimony and trying
the case will be about $1,000.
The only issue in the case is the
maternity of Edward \. Mcmahon.
And all the testimony is to prove the
pedigree of that young man, now living
in Kansas City, he being backed 10y
some wealthy gentlemen OF the Pacific
Slope. 1t is pretty well established
that the boy is the son Of Ella Hardesty
nee Ingles, and was partially reared by
his grandmother in this city.
The Ingles family, which is extensive,
dates back almost a century III this
section of the State.
One of the most interesting features
of the case is ali alleged will, purport-
Mcdonald GrenvIlle in Africa, 1884.
This paper was first exhibited here, in
April last, by Il man calling and intro
duclng himself as Epps Sargent,
attorney-at-l law, Law Lane, Piccadilly,
London, England. He nsed the
document to induce people to enlist III
his cause in support Of the claim that
Ed Mcmahon was the son of his aunt,
not of his mother. lnaSmuch as the
aunt died without issue and without
disposing of her vast estate, therefore
it descended to her legal heirs-her
| brother and sisters.
| We are informed some of our citizens
We'd with each other in furnishing tishy
and fabulous rOmanceS about the boy,
Eddie Ingles, HOW McMahon and the
nobility of his aunt, mother and
illustrious family of his sire, who they
claimed was a commissioned officer IN
the Imperial Guard London, England,
back The will bequeathed 81. 800, 900
to Ed Mcmahon. the son Of the tesla
tor, but Ed was lost, strayed or stolen
and was in America and was born jan
/, 1866, at Parkersburg, Va, and $780,
900 was to be spent in locating the boy
if alive, TO be divided between the
persons swearing the hardest that Ed.
| McMahon wasn't the son of his mother,
| but the son Of his aunt who was then
dead. If McMahon could not be found
the 100000 was to be appropriated to
| the labor organizations of the United
States. The will caught great many.
| Merchants broke their yard sticks and
| set up the stOgies 10 the boys and
smiled Carpenters threw away their
saws, chisels and jack planes and shoe
makers jerked off their aprons and
cheWed up their wax. Negroes anG
whites chinned and whispered together
about the great fortune which was to he
divided amongst the most stupendous
prevaricators. Some of them didn't
| hn Of fl q
being coached and drilled and then
sworn forgot, the name of the family
about which they were to testify, and
who lived here so years ago. They
would call them Ingrams, Ingrahams
and Immosens, instead of lngles. The
will declared it was made in 1894 in
Cape Town, province of Natal, Africa.
1t spoke of Park ersburg, Virginia.
When the attorneys for Ingles got hold
of the papers they were not long in
making the discovery that Cape Town
is in the State of Good Hope, and the
Province of Natal is at least 900 miles
north of Cape Town and that Parkers-
burg is not in Virginia and was not in
the year 1891. They then knew it was
a rank fake gotten up to catch suckers.
Somewhere in the west Epps Sargent
was found His name IS Gelruth, and
he has two OF three aliases. He is a
curbstone promoter, com munlstic and
Populistic agitator and lives in Kansas
City. He swore the alleged will was a
fictitious document and that he got it
up IN Kansas City. That it was not a
genuine document and was gotten up
for the purpose for which it was used.
If our information is correct, then
like boomerang it will prove harmless
to the defendants but will injure the
persons in whose interest 1t was in
vented. We feel sorry for the people
who were deceived by "Epps'' and his
will, and who are doomed to disapoint-
ment if they expect a slice of the one
and one-half millions of dollars
Daily State Journal, Parkersburg, West
Virginia.