The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
Papers to Be Filed To-Day to
Compel Him to Probate
a Copy.
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS.
Colonel Kowalsky Says That General
Hart Agreed to Pay Mrs.
Carr $4,000.

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heirs, scandals and sensations, was be-
lieved to have been quietly laid on the
shelf when the property was turned over
to Florence BIythe-Hinkley, but this be-
lief was unfounded, for the Blythe case
has a lively faculty of resurrecting itself,
and always with jolly ghost or two to
keep it company.
The first aftermath sensation was noted
IN The CALL day or two ago when men
tion was made of an attachment suit be-
gun by I. l. Bergin against the Blythe
estate to recover $4,000, alleged to have
been advanced to Florence Blythe by Law
yer Bergin during the progress of the will
contest.
Yesterday bigger sensation than any
OF the others was sprung by Attorneys E.
]. Pringle, H. B. NJ. Miller and Mr.. Wat
son, when they called upon General w. H.
Il. Hart and made a demand that he
should file for probate purported copy of
will OF Thomas H. Blythe, said copy
being in the possession of Mrs. Carr, a
client of the lawyers already mentioned.
Mrs. Carr claimed $4,000, which, according
to the terms of the copy OF the will, was a
legacy from Blythe to her husband. Cen
N"A AA"Ab ASiuoC0 W tiCdb Will Lut lawyers
or their client, and they went away after
having notified General Hart that they
would begin proceedings against him to-.
day.
Colonel 81. /. Kowalsky, who had been
intimately connected with the Blythe
case, was seen by CALL man last night at
his apartment in the Baldwin Hotel, and
made statement to the following effect
Early in the proceedings in the Blythe
estate some persons, whose names | do
not now remember, claimed to be in pos
session of the will of Thomas H. Blythe.
Ex-Superior Judge T. K. Wilson, since
dead, came up from Los Angeles as coun-
sci for those psrties, the principal one of
whom was woman. They produced
what purported to be a copy of the will
but which on its face was not such, it be-
ing made up of scraps of information
which they found floating about in
the newspapers. The attorneys for
the estate, Messrs. CARRIER, Boalt &
Bishop, General Hart, myself and Others
looked Into the matter and found that
there was nothing in it; that the pretended
copy was no copy at all. but fraud, like
all OF the others that were harassing the
estate at that time.
"Right here, General Hart did one of
the most foolish things imaginable. He
allowed Judge Wilson to persuade him to
agree to pay the woman $25 or $50 per
month until a sum amounting to $4,000
had been paid off. We advised General
Hart not to do anything of the kind. but
judge Wilson succeeded in influencing
him to do so. There is absolutely moth
ing in this woman's claim, and we dis
missed it as we did scores of others. II
had been reported that Blythes viii had
been found. and General Hart had
offered 100000 to the person who would
produce it; and when he went to Los An
geles to see those people he found that
they had only pretended copy
General Hart's version, as given last
night, differs materially from that of
Colonel Kowalsky. The general fiatly de.
MED ever having paid the woman a cent
He said:
"Lamey and Wilson looked into the
matter and found that there was nothing
in it. These people claimed that they
could produce copy of the will, but they
did not do so. l knew as soon as l set nv
eyes on it that it was a fraud. They
claimed to have the original WILL but I
made up my mind that it was myth and
had nothing to do with it. The same con-
clusion was also reached by Mr.. Boalt and
the rest of my associates. it was then
that we sent to Mr.. Estee, with the re-
quest that he should undertake to probate
it. He investigated the matter and came
to the conclusion that there was nothing
in it. | know nothing of any payments
having been MADE to the woman.
"Mrs. Carr has authorized her ATTORNEYS
to bring suit, alleging that I should have
probated the copy of the will, and her at
torneys to-day demanded $4,000 from me.
that baing the amount which was purported
to have been bequeathed to her husband
by Blythe in the copy of the will. 1 told
them to go ahead and file all the suits
they wanted.
at will be remembered that early in the
contest there was well-defined impress
sion that Blythe had left will, and 1
offered certain amount cf money to the
person who would produce it, but it was
never produced"