The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-06
STETSON'S ESTATE.
1T is IN A VERY BADLY MIXED
CONDITION.
Has DvindIed From at Least a
Couple of Millions TO Less Than
Half Million, and Where the
Money Has Gone is the Mystery.

CHICAGO, May 5.--As special to the
Times-Herald from Boston, Mass, says:
The estate of the late John Stetsen
seems to be badly mixed up, and the de-
velopments caused by the death of Mrs
Stetson so soon following that of her
famous husband, have caused mild SEN
sation in this city. There are all sorts
of rumors, all of which, sifted down,
amounted to this fact:
When John Stetson died on April II he
left an estate variously estimated at from
81, 000 900 to $3,0O0,000 Today, the property
amounts to less than $4,000 and no one
knows where the balance has gone.
Lawyer Pattee, of Winthrop, and Mrs
Stetson were known to be named as
EXECUTORS OF THE WILL
of the millionaire theatre manager
though the will was in his keeping. Mr.
Pattee was taken with pneumonia a few
days after Mr.. Stetson's funeral and
last Friday Melvin 0. Adams, of this
city, was appointed special administrator
of the entire estate, owing to the con-
tinued illness of Mr.. Pattee, and Mrs.
Stetson, who never got out of her bed
at once went to work to get the estate
together, with the result told. He is said
to feel sure that Mr.. Stetson left about
$2000,000, and he can find only $500, 600
be able to give any idea of
WHERE THE BALANCE HAS GONE
to. He has ordered the magnificent
Hotel Savoy, which was opened SIX weeks
ago, closed, having found that it was
losing money.
What puzzles Mr. Adams is the fact
that the will of Mr.. Stetson cannot be
found. Mr.. Pattee who drew it up is said
to have never had it in his keeping. The
witnesses were the family physician DR..
Q. w. Cicely, the Stetson hoster and an
assistant hostler. The will left every
thing to Mrs. Stetson without reserve
On top of this comes the official announce
ment that the body of Mrs. Stetson will be
taken to New York and buried in the lot
of her family in Evergreen cemetery in
stead of being buried beside the body of
her husband in Mount Auburn, Cam
bridge. Whether or not Mrs. Stetson
whose heirs are her mother and three sis
tiers, left a will is not known.
Mr.. Adams, in speaking of the matter
said 1t was the most extraordinary COM
bnation of circumstances he ever en-
countered.
First, John Stetson, shrewd manager
and man of business dies suddenly, leay-
ing an estate reaching in value 81, 0OO 900.
Mr.. Pattee, who drew his will, is there
upon taken so seriously i'll that he is I'M
THROW ANY LIGHT
upon the situation, and as his malady still
continues it has been impossible to OBJ
tain a conference with him. He lapses
into periods of Inconsistencies
Then Mrs. Stetson, comparatively
been unconscious much of the time since
her husbands death, and will not be
buried beside him.
More remarkable STILL said Mr.
Adams, lis the manner in which the
values of a great property have been
whitfield down and dissipated in SO many
directions"
Mr.. Pattee is still a very sick man at
his home of pneumonia, and it is innpos-
sible to get any information from him.
Mr.. Adams, since closing the Savoy, has
not decided about the Park theatre, also
owned by the estate, but as it is making
money and has contracts to fill it will
probably be allowed to continue business
by the present administrator.