Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-11-13

life. These threats we're so frequent that
his friends ceased to worry much about
them. The following extracts from . let.
Ter written in April shed light on the I'M
happy mans domestic troubles aud gene
raj grief:
SAN FRAxcIsco, April %, 1897.
Judge A. L. Fitzgersld-MY BEST
FRrESD: When you receive this l will be
in my grave. 1 have left g package con-
tanning ny viii and the Mccoy note and
mortgage. I have made about the same
will IS the one you saw.
In the same letter the following ex-
pressions occur
Judge, these girls have ct times used
me cruel, and I truly believe they have
tried to keep me in g nervous state In or
der 10 hasten my end, hoping then TO re-
vel in my hard earnings. / believe Hat
tie would have been better to me had 10
moi. been for her sister Msdge
/ am sorry l left Mamie Is much as l did,
and l am almost tempted to open the will
and change il. l hope you will deal with
them just Is they deserve, for they have
been cruel to me. l wish ] had left them
only IS. When they find l have left q
will they will try 70 hide things. There is
q book in my desk that has an account OF
everything. Make them produce every
thing, and II they attempt to break my
will fight them to the bitter end. Your
old friend, JOHN s. CAPRoS.
Another, and the most bitter letter OF
all. ia given below. and contains much
that will support the contention Of Judge
Fitzgerald that the will made in favor Of
the ste~pdsughters was never anything
more than q declaration Of trust.
oAPRos,s BITTER Z EB.
MY DEAR MApeE: When you re ceive
this / shsll be laid away TO rest-at least IL
shall be q rest from the abuse Of your
tongue. You will have ,he pleasure OF
knowing that you can reyel In the hard
earned wealth OF the old man. For what
l did for You and the rest OF the Mormons
of the family was enough for you to try
and make my life . little more pleasant,
but. I might have known that you would
not do so. for any woman that would for
sake her poor old grandma and her own
Mormon father and sisters and three
brothers has nothing but . corrupt heart.
found you and your mother in q bor-
rible condition, glad to get the crumbs
that George Lundgren brought you from
his restaurant, with your feet almost on
the SHOWS OF Eureka. i il was that saved
you from frozen feet and placed you where
you had all the comforts OF life. / fur
| nished you with q house and q stove TO
keep you warm, and wood to burn, and
even had 10 sawed and split for your
mother. All this one would have thought
would have made you Q little more kind
10 your own mother. You have also
begged me to keep the secret Of your
Uncle 0rsmus Ney's s~tsge-robbipg and
States. prison life, and also the life Of
your sister and your Mormon brothers,
and your father, who 10 still living. But
I have no reason now 10 keep the secret
longer. Your treatment s.acs I have been
siok has made me feel very different to
what / did when I made the deeds and
signed the mortgages and notes and gave
them In trust to you. ! hope that every
dollar OF my money that you touch will
burn your fingers, and were 10 not for
poor little Loretta I would send you out
Of the world before ! shut oui my OWE
life. (signedl oLp MAN CAPRoS.
Not dated, but supposed to have been
written abou. April 10.
II ia stated that Capron consulted A.
tornsy MeyenbAum about q year ago rel.
stivs TO suing the girls to break the will
or trust deed. Tbs attorney advised his
client 10 make . demand for 0 revocation.
Tbs girls were consulted and ell agreed,
80 Cspron reported. TO sign the inssru.
men. .. any time the formal demand was
made. First one thing and then another
deferred Oapron from his purpose. Hs
seemed 10 fear ,hs women. who he said,
made him nervous. and no decided 10
reach the matter by making another will.
II is that will which Is nos under Are.
II grants most o.! the Capron estate to
Judge A. L. Fitzgerald and family. The
Judges fsther-in-law had been q friend Of
Cspron and had granted him favors and
given him situations by which be laid the
foundation Of his fortune.
The contention on the part Of the step
daughters 10 that Cspron was not Of sound
mind ct the time Of making his last will
and Was unduly Influenced by Judge Fitz.
gerald. The court and jury will therefore
simply have to say whether the we'll known
capitalist and money lender was insane
when be made the will leaving the bulk OF
his fortune to the son.in-lsw OF the man
who laid the foundation Of bis fortune, or
whether his disposition Of his estate, IN.
der the belief that he WAS being harassed