Evening journal., 1896-11-11
TO CONTEST HER WlLL
Mrs. FIicks-Lord's Nephew Files
Objections.
EB IS AN AKsTBRDAm BANKER.
lie Denies That tha Ecceutrio woman's
Great Fortune Had feea Reduced BE-
fore Her Dea;a-shc Made large Be-
sucsia 20 Legal Servants.

lore AAtA Afthtn n--nne hhuc Largo t't-
qucsta 20 Legal Servants.
NEw YORK. Nov. n The odd win Of
that odd woman, Mrs NiciSs-I.ord, is to
ho contested hy her iaNcrite nephew j.
81. II. Crommeimof Amsterdam, Holland
During her LONG si9ys abroad Mrs
Hicks Lord often made the ancestral home
OF the crommclins her ovn. Her nephew
knew nothing oi her death tim a friend in
Now ork scnt him newspaper c0ntain-
ing two column account OF e. This news
was closely foli0woi hy lettcrs tcliing of
her strange viii end lntimadag that the
estate hao NOS cwmblod Gway by her use
oi tho principal, as was reported ot the
tinc. but that inslc2d of a palty fioO,
COO she stiil rct0inod what represented .
some of tnc many millions that had come
to hcr hy inheritance and her two mar
riages
Dir Crommclin Is Will known banker
I'M Amsicrdam and his family is one of
the most famous in Holland lie decided /
Co visit America and ind out Tie truth Tor .
himself Ho arrived here on thc Neither /
lands-Americau liner Spaarndam @ week
ago last Sunday lie brought letiOrs TO
American branches of Amsterdam houses,
and through them law firm has boon en-
gagged TO- investigate the circumstances OF
the preparing of Che win and 20 bring Che
contest Air Cropmeiin has boon enjoy
ing himself in New York I'M "a socid way
and SIS now on q Sightseeing tour in wash
inpton The papers win probably be served
within a fcw days.
Airs. Hicks-L0fd was born i'm Surinam,
Dutch Guiana, in is27 fier great grand
fathcr was Sir Francis Rumhout, an Eng
lish gentleman, who two centuries ago got
a concc aon l2 milcs long and miles
wide ON Nth sides of lishkill creek, parts
of which have since been owned by such
New York families aG the Nips, Van
Courtlandts and schcncks
Acquired a Fortune In Dutch Guiana.
Sir Francis married a Schenck, and Alb
nor IT,. their SON, married a Miss Wiltse
Their daughter Adelino was the mother of
Mrs Hicks-Lord Her father was Unico
Peter Wilkins whose sister was the anccs-
torof the contestant Crommelin wilkins,
the father of Mrs. Hicks-Lord, was rich
Dutch planter. who acquired fortune i'm
Dutch Guiana The family returned to
Mntteawan. whore the fnthor died.
ASA young and pretty girl Annette vii
kins was married to Henry Hicks New
York shipping merchant many yonrs older
than herself Hc died in 1860, leaving her
% large fortune. including a mansion at 10
West Fourteenth street and valuable lands
in Toledo.
Mrs. Hicks was married later to Thorn
as Lord q New York millionaire, nearly so
years old who hud four sons and two
daughters Among the sons was Frank
Lord, the famous pistol shot, who IS even
better known in Europe than in America.
Thomas Lord lived ot.35 West Seventeenth
atrcet. Hewas the youngest of seven broth.
crs who had come to New York from Eas
Haddam Conn.
The wedding took place at Matteawaf
on Dec I'll. 1877 The Lord family made q
tcrrihle row. for the ola man was worth
$4,000 600 The strangely assorted couple
were I'm hiding for long time. Detectives
searched for them I'm the south, and they
We're finally found livingin her West Four
teenth street mansion. AT night they did
not venture go have lights.
on Jan %, 1873, Justice Van Bruni
signed an order forbdding Lord TO dis
pose of his property, and it wns shown that
bee had given his wife $4,000 a week foI
some time before thcir marriage The suit
was soUlei during that year 10y Mr.. Lord
giving his property into Che hands Of trus.
tees and his wife relinquishing her dover
rights. He died q yoar later leaving til,
bulls OF his property to his widow.
Mrs. IIioks-Lord's Lavish Expenditures.
Mrs HicEs-Lord bought the mansion a
= 32 Wcsl Washington square, which lol
throe winters had been icnantcd by Gencr
al George h. Mcclellan and his family
She gave there such hcntcrtninmcntsa as Nev
York had never seen and always worc ho
a20 600 stomochcr of diamonds There, 20
her breakfast room. hung the maps of hc
property. and thcro She did business witt
% shroNlrcss THAT was the marvel ol he
friends.
Thcro She diod on the night of Aug.
last of cerebral gpcplc1y and was buried il
Che schcnrk plot at fishSill ln hcr hous
was % nfeit collection of paintings, jewel
and priceless onamcls itwas reported att
p or hen dclth chat She had sold the hous
4 eul was living Bio it at rental of $1,000
y also that her property had uWindlci iron
q millions to hundreds of thousands.
d Her win which is now 60 bee contested
r was road ON Sept 2s. The rcsiduary estat
b was left tl hor nephew, Jefferson Fletcher
and lo her cousin, Sarah d. Townsend
S Yhe hc4ue ts which excited comment wer
q thosn madc TO the few trusted servants
q who had been long in Der employ and ha
IS stood iy her through thick and thin.
Is 70 her coi0rcd maid, Maria Miller, wh
% bad heon with her 35 years, she left a
IS annuity OF sl00 q week for life 10 Thon
% as DYER. her goodman, who had been
her employ 22 years, she left s25 wee
D. for life. The maid also got some of Oh
.e most valuable furniture. Tho parlor mai,
g. Margaret Vincent, got S35 a week for lif'
l- Young Fletcher got an annuity of $40
Is d month far life, valuable lands at Hicl0
vile. o.. and furniture. Anna Ward 20
,r Mrs Hicks Lord Is famous yellow damon
Sc earrings and sarah E. Townsend h'
ID gowns and mic-a-hrac. The Audubo
10 books with silver bindings, the stufIc
birds ana the volumes un arctic. explor
IA tion won't 20 the Lenox library and h'
Il famous Crawford paintings 70 the Metr
lc poitMn museum.
DE- Remsen g. Parsons of go Wall strc
lt filed the will OF which the executors al
So George Bell and Thomas S. Townsend.
Is Prominent Jersey Republican Dead.
NEW YORK, Nov. lie v. n. Wilsoi
q leading Republican of New Jersey, die
at Long Branch Of typhoid pneumoni
ld Mr. Wilson was marshal Of tho big para'
~ ,-IioH crr,,afo1 Carrot 4 Hobart and Go