The San Francisco call., 1898-04-26
Her Rents Amounted to Nearly 5000
 Month.
She Was Young, Beautiful and Very Lavish With Her
 Money.
GAVE AWAY THOUSANDS
An Old Mother in France Is the Main Contestant of Her
 Win.

Now there is to be a contest for the possession of an estate left by the late Celestine Gimonet, @ woman of the ten derloin who committed suicide on the 9th day of December last by inhaling gas. A Coroner's jury brought in a verdict accordingly.
 The woman was found dead on the day mentioned in her apartments on the cor her of Pine and St. Marys streets. and a will was subsequently discovered in which Anna Bouygues a simple acquaint- ance and no relative, was named as the principal devisee and legatee.
 As the deceased left a mother in France and a sister here, a contest has been filed by Attorney F. F. Benson, of the Mills building. in which he sets forth that the estate is worth more than S10 900, and that the will in question was obtained through fraud and undue in fluence.
 The lawyer has obtained the power of attorney from the mother of deceased, who resides in Agenonily, Les Chapliens, Department du Cher France, and also from Mrs. Louis Eau, a sister residing in this city, on the corner of Sacramento and Mason streets.
 Celestine Gimonet was remarkable for her beauty of face and figure and es- pecially noted for her eXtraVagant habits Her books show that her rentals run lSltpuldule pldCeS on St. Mary $ street amounted to about 5000 on the average, which money she lavished on certain tavorites during her drinking spells, which were periodical
 4 few days before her death her sis ter says, she gave Paul Boudin, a French man, $24OO in cash, with which he skipped out to France. It is also alleged that deceased had a great deal of ieWelrv which cannot now be accounted for She had valuable diamond rings and several garter clasps set with precious stones, which were estimated to be worth hun
 It is asked that the will in favor of Anna Bouygues be cancelled and set aside That instrument is dated July IS 1897 eXecutOr without bonds.
 The complaint says of the legatee that she is "a woman of lewd and dssolute habits, and known to be the associate of notorious characters, lewd and abandoned persons: And also that Anna Bouygues knew deceased was not of sound mind and indulged in the excessive and fntem- perate use of intoxicating drinks, nor phine and other drugs mentally incapac ci- tating her from making a will or proner- ly distributing her property, and on the date of said purported will attempted to commit suicide, and while in said condi- tion of mind and body the said Anna Bouygues visited her daily. against the wishes of deceased, and poisoned the mind of said deceased against her mother and relatives, through connivance, artf- nee, fraud, deceit, coercion and undue in- AIuVAlSC, eiAiI uiu oIleu dSk the said de- ceased to sign over her property to her, at the same time advising her to keep away from her sister and brother-in- law"
 At the time of her death Ceestine was not 30 years. of age. When it became known to her that the places on St Mary's street were to be closed by the police she saw that her large income would be reduced to nothing, and it was then that she went on a violent debauch that ended in suicide.
 There is about S6OOO to her credit in bank, which, together with other proper ty and lease holdings will run the estate up to nearly $20, ,000.