The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-17
SECOND DAY OF
ALLP0RT TRIAL
Making Slow Progress Evidence Rela-
tive to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Take the Stand.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Boulder, Nov. 16.-The Airport will
case is now on its second day and prog
ress is somewhat slow, owing to the
length which the attorneys go in arriv-
ing at a witness competency to testify
regarding the signature of the deceased
Airport. A jury was secured in the case
with less difficulty than was expected
there being but few excused and these
principally because they We're on the
panel at a former term when the first
will offered was contested The jury is
composed of S. B. Van Wart of Wood
vile; l. NJ Marks, Alhambra; James
Cook. S. L. Gillian and J. w. Holt of
Clancy: NJ. A. Johnson, Jefferson: Dod-
ley Halford, Joseph Kamen and j. T.
Filcher of Boulder; Uriah Timer and
J. l.. Heinzeman of Whitehall, and Gus
Dahl of Elk Park.
The proponent of the will had on the
stand Judge Nichols of Butte, who tes-
titled how the will came into his pos
session. being brought to him by Geig-
erich. one of the witnesses thereto. who
said that he found it among the papers
in his trunk; it was a sealed envelope
and he sent for parties interested be-
fore opening it; the will was offered
for probate in Silver Bow county, but
was afterwards removed to Jefferson
county. Mrs. Kelley, the proponent of
the will and the beneficiary under it's
terms. told of her acts in relation there
to, and the matter of her origin
ally attempting to secure the property
without the knowledge of the other
heirs, was also gone into, and in evidence
were offered the papers in that case,
wherein she swore that there were no
other heirs living. Her husband, George
HI. Kelley, also testified, as did Captain
Brannagan and James Murray of Butte
as to Allport's signature. H. l.. Sher-
lock- sheriff of Jefferson county. told of
1T At, I,,4s
in the case. Proponents then began to
prove the signature of B. c. w. Evans
and M. Geigerich to the will, which was
witnessed by them and the body OF
which was in Evans handwriting. Mr..
Wilson. court stenographer in Butte,
testified to being well acquainted with
the handwriting and signatures of the
witnesses to the will and that those on
the will were their signatures. He had
often seen Evans and Geigerich in
Butte up to about four months ago,
when they disappeared from Butte and
he had not seen them since. J. NJ. Rey-
nolds. deputy sheriff of Silver Bow
county, testified that he was requested
to serve subpoenas on Evans and Gel
gerch, but could not find them in Butte
and had heard that Evans had gone to
British Columbia and Geigerich to the
Seven Devils country in Idaho.
Witnesses thus far called for the con-
testants to show that the signature on
the document purporting to be the will
of John D. Airport was not his sigma
ture are George S. Kennedy, Amos Cal
vim, John II. Shober and Buck Hud-
nall of Henela and Truman Hopkins of
Basin. There are yet many witnesses
who claim to be sufficiently familiar
with Allport's signature to qualify
them for swearing to and against it's
genuineness, besides the experts on
both sides, whose testimony is awaited
with some interest and who began their
testimony this afternoon. The experts
for proponents are M. D. Ewell and w.
A. Drake of Chicago, and for contest
ants, Henry l.. Tallman of Chicago.