The San Francisco call., 1899-08-13
HEIRS LEARN OF
UNCLE MOORE'S
DEATH TOO LATE
The Estate They Say
Was Looted.
RELATIVES WERE NOT SOUGHT
FRANK sANDERsoN MAKES
STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
Thousands on Deposit in Bank Van.
ish and Escheat of Balance to
the State Will Be Bitterly
Contested.
RELATIVES WERE NOT SOUGHT
FRANK SANDERSON MAKES
STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
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Frank Sanderson has come all the way
from Clifton. Ill, to discover that the
comfortable estate of his uncle W. ".
Moore, who died intestate at EmeryYilIe
on February II, 1898. has evaporated like
Scottish mist before q July MONDAY
sun.
The estate had been settled up prac-
tically through ex-Publc Administrator
James Stanley. and OF the original $4,000
Cthe value given the estate in Stanley :
petition for letters in 1894, and which con-
sisted entirely OF moneys on deposit in
local bank, but remnant-S69O-re-
mains. and no heirs having been found
up 10 the time of the administrators final
account tins sum esCheaJs TO the State OF
california 10 the credit Of the school fund.
And all this Notwithstanding that there
were at least six legal heirs residing in
the East who only recently, through a
letter from Attorney J. .. Mattos. learned
OF MOore's death
The money OF an heirless estate is un-
DER the law paid into the county treasury,
and the CusJuuIan OF TINS SJrOngUoX then
pays II O\ Il 10 the state treasurer. ms
mas atredQy been done in the Moore eS-
tate but a bitter contest was commenced
this afternoon IN Judge Halis department
Of the Superior CouTJ for the recovery OF
1t least me 5000 GAINED by the heirs
Frank SandersOn, through his attorney,
J q. NattOs, had petluoned for the dlsJri-
button of the remnant. but h; Myron
Volt vigorously opposed the petition un-
Ger authorization nom the Attorney Cen
eraL He Contended that the estate had
been fully closed up and that since no
heirs had LAID siege 10 their claims Wlthln
the five years limited by the civil Code
the money had already eScheated to the
state. lie insisted that the money be-
longs now to the State school fund and
hat ne. therefore. Is moreover entitled
10 his commission for having SO ensl-
neered the estates remnant. Attorney
Wolf however. stated that the Attorney
General COurted an adverse ruling OF the
Superior Court in order that 1t might
prove a test case Wolf went TO the
extent of declaring that a foreigner might
ant than heirs who silently abide IN this
Attorney Mattos. for Sanderson. was
permitted TO submit deposition OF one
Of the heirs Susan Brigham, wherein de-
DOnent declared that she had only re-
Gently learned of Moore's death.
judge Hall decided 70 continue the nat
ter for further hearing on briefs to he
filed within twenty days.
The most sensa tionaI feature Of the case
dersOu. and one that viii prove starting
under the circumstances.
1T has been claimed by the eN-PGbHc
Administrator = that no heirs could be
found" said Frank SandersOn TO a Call
reporter this evening. yet when | rum
Randett House in Emeryvtlla as soon as
! arrived / found a pile OF letters MI
Moore had received from my mother and
from many other relatives during the past
fifteen years. Now it is strange that
through these letters. most of which had
able to locate an heir ~
1T is strange, too, that all Of the $35P
on deposit has simmeTed away AMI the
he'~e have got none. 1t seems to M