The Republican., 1899-03-23
Edward H. Slnceu and Fred \. Thayer, So
Iicitors.
Order Of Publication.

Jane F. Fike, John c. Fike, Jasper Fike, An
ME Reybeck and Frank Reybeck, her
husband, and Andrew j. Fike, James
Fike eandMaggieFike,in infants, by their next
friend Jane f. Fike, VS.. Jonas Frazee, ad-
ministrator of Andrew J. Fike, deceased.
In the Orphans Court for Garrett county,
Maryland.
The object of this petition is TO require
Jonas Frazee, Administrator of Andrew j.
Fike, deceased, to produce and file in this
court true and perfectinyentory and list of
debts due the estate of said deceased and to
have the accounts and proceedings Of the
said administrator opened, reviewed and
restated.
The petition states that on the 29th day of
April, 1887, Letters of Administration were
granted by said Court to the said Jonas Fra
zee upon the personal estate of the said An
drew j. Fike, late of Garrett county and the
| State of Maryland, deceased, and by virtue
thereof the said Administrator gave bond
| and possessed himself Of said personal estate;
| that the petitioners are the widow and heirs
at law OF the said decedent and that at the
| time of granting said letters all of said
| children were infants under the age of twen-
| ty-one years, and that the petitioners, An
| drew j. Fike, James Fike and Maggie Fike are
| still infants; that ON the 3rd day of January
| 1888, said administrator returned to this
| Court what purported to be an inventory of
| all the debts due said estate, but the petition
| charges that the same was not full and
| complete inventory Of said debts; that the
said Administrator did not return an ac-
| count against himself for the sum of $4,000;
| and did not return complete statement of
| the account due by one Daniel Fike, in that
the amount due by said Fike to said estate
was $1l59.94, but the Administrator only
| returned as being so due the sum of $1067.T9,
although the Administrator collected ana
received the whole of the $1159.94; that on the
| Bird day OF January, 1888, the said Adminstra-
| tor settled first account of said personal
| estate in this Court. wherein he charged
| himself with a list of sales of personal prop
| erty OF said decedent amounting to $l0S4.24,
and the list of debts due said estate of $1056.02
which was not full and complete, but fraud
| upon the said estate, this Honorable Court
| and the petitioners; that included in said
| list of sales was one item for logs sold YOUR
petitioner, Jane f. Fike, which she charges
| She did not bid upon and did not buy nor
| authorize the Administrator or anyone else
to bid i'll or buy for her, but which the petit
tion charges was so returned by the said
Administrator in order that he might perpe-
trate fraud upon said estate and the petit
tioners; that shortly after said sale of said
| personal effects the said Administrator put
a saw mill upon the real estate of the said
| decedent and sawed up said logs into lum-
Der and sold and disposed of the same ON his
| own account, and put the proceeds thereof,
| amounting to more than $4,000, into his own
pocket, and never intimated to the petition
er that the said Jane +. Fike or any one of
| them had any interest whatever in said logs
or money derived as aforesaid; that in said
account said Administrator took credit for
an account due himself for $3.50, and also
| for another account due himself for $S35.2S,
| and for an account due Daniel Fike of $l04.45,
all OF which accounts were simulated pre-
tended and fraudulent and brought in by
| said Administrator for the purpose of de-
| frauding said estate and your petitioners;
that the petitioner, Jane F. Fike, is the sister
of said Administrator, Jonas FraZee, and
the other of said petitioners his nephews and
| nieces, and that he kept from them his
transactions concerning said estate, and
that only within the last few months has the
| true state of his proceedings been known to
| the petitioners; that by the misconduct,
| fraud and misrepresentation of said Admin
| GfI.of ~ hn Hnx hoo lr.,N%
| the dark concerning said estate, and have
| been grossly wronged and defrauded out of
| their property and the estate of said dece-
| dent has been miSapplied and wasted and
| III order that true account of said estate by
| said Administrator may be had and made it
| will be necessary that the accounts and pro-
| ceedings of said Administrator be reopened
and restated under the order and direction
| of this Court.
The petition then prays that the said Jonas
| FraZee, Administrator Of Andrew j. Fike,
| deceased, may be required to produce and
| file in this Court true and perfect inventory
| and list of debts due the estate of said dece-
| dent; that the account and proceedings of
| said Administrator may be opened, reviewed
and reStated and for general relief and for
| process.
That the said Jonas Frazee, Administrator
as aforesaid, is nonresident.
1t is thereupon, this 2Sth day of February
| 1899, ordered by the Orphans Court for Gar
rett county, that the petitioners by causing
| a copy of this order to be inserted in some
| newspaper published in said Garrett county
once i'll each of four successive weeks before
the 4th day of April, 1899, give notice to the
said absent defendant of the object and sub
stance of this petition, warning him to ap-
pear in this Court in person or by solicitor
on or before the 1lth day of April, 1899, to
show cause, if any he has, why the prayer of
said petition ought not to be granted as
prayed.
DANIEL WILSON, C. ]. o. C.
| r. II. CUPPETT, j. .O.C.
ELIAS MERRILL, j. O.C
True copy-Test:
| j. w. WHITE, Register. SIS