The Republican., 1899-04-06
Edward II. Sinceu and Fred. a. Thayer, So
licitOrs
Order Of Publication.

Jane +. 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 a true and perfectinventory 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 18th 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 TWEEN
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 a tuIl and
complete inventory of said debts; that the
said Administrator did not return an ac-
count against himself for the sum of S6400U
and did not return complete statement OF
the account due by one Daniel Fike, in that
the amount due by said kike TO said estate
was Sll59.9i, but the Administrator only
returned as being 50 due the sum of $lO6119,
although the Administrator collected and
received the whole of the $l1j994; that ON the
}rd day OF January, 1855, the said AdminiStIa-
tor settled first account OF said personal
estate in this Court wherein he charged
himself with list OF sales OF personal prop
erty of said deCedenU amounting to $lUSI.24.
ana the list of debts due said estate of $lU562,
which was not fun and complete, but fraud
! upon the said estate this Honorable Court
| and the petitioners; that included III said
! list OF sales was one item for logs sold your
/ petitioner, Jane +. Fike which she charges
| she did not BID upon and did nOJ buy nor
authorize Ihe Administration or anyone else
| to bid in OF Duy tor her, but which the peti-
| ton charges was so returned by the said
| Administrator in order that he might perpe-
| trate fIaud upon SAID estate ana the peti-
| TONERS; that shortly after said sale of said
| personal effects the said Administrator put
! Il saw min upon the real estate of the said
| decedent ana 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 uhan $lUOOO INTO his own
! pocket, and never intimated TO The petition
| er that the said Jane f. tike or any one of
| them had any interest whatever III said logs
! or money derived as aforesaid; chat III SaId
account said Administration UUOk CrtuiU FOR
/ an account due himself IOr 81 80, and also
| FOR another account uue himself for $}352S
! ana an account que lJdniel Ike OF SlU4iO,
| all of which accounts We're 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,
| fpnIll and instrumentation of said Admin
| iStratOr, the petitioners have been kept i'll
| the dark concerning said estate, and have
| been grossly WrOnged and detrauded out Of
| their property ana the estate OF said dece-
| dent has been misapplied ana wasted and
! in order that true account of said estate by
said Administrator may be had and made, it
| viii he necessary that the accounts and pro
ceedingS of said Administrator be reOpened
ana restated under the order and direction
| OF TINS Court
The petition then prays that the said Jonas
| FfaZee, Administrator Of Andrew j. Fike
| deceased, may be required to produce ana
| file in this Court Il 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 ana for general relief and for
| process.
That the said Jonas Frazee, Administrator
as aforesaid, is Il nonresident
1t is thereupon. this 2sth day of February,
| lSH, 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 III each OF four successive weeks before
| the 4th day Of April, 1893, give notice to the
| said absent defendant OF the object ana sub
stance Of this petition, warming him 10 ap-
| pear IN this Court in person or by solicitor
ON or before the llth day OF. Aprll, 1899, to
show cause, il any he has, why tine prayer Of
! said petition ought MOI to De granted as
| prayed
DANIEL WILSON, CD. .O.C.
I. Ii. CUPPEHH. d. O. C..