The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-13
FIGHTING FOR HIS MONEY
Heirs of DR.. dc Freye Becoming
Involved in Litigation.
AN ALLEGED FORGED WILL
Courts VIII Be Asked to Pass Upon the
GaEu.neness of the Document.
Experts Declare 1t q
Forgery.

The heirs of DR.. Dc Freye. at one
time a resident of Butte have gotten
into a fight over his estate in Califor-
MIA, and charges Of forgery are made in
relation to the doctors alleged will.
We expect soon to file document
which purports to be the last will of
the late DR.. Bruno Carl de Freye, but
which we believe to be a forgery" said
Attorney Cormac to an Examiner re-
porter at San FranCiscn. Mr. Cormac
is a member of the firm Of Cormac,
Donohue & Baum, appointed by the su-
perior court to represent absent heirs
having an interest in the de Freye es-
tate.
1t was explained that the document
in question had been forwarded to for
mer Public Administrator Freese and
that as it was properly within the pro-
vince of the superior court to pass en-
the question whether it is genuine or
spurious, it would be submitted to the
judge for scrutiny.
Mr.. Cormac recalled the fact that
soon after the death of the late Sena-
tor James C. Fair a note 70" 100000.
purporting to bear Fairs signature.
was forwarded from New Haven,
rejected as a forgery, and the paper
now presented as de Freye's will, the
lawyers say appears to be someWha.
similar
Soon after DR.. de Treye's death it
was announced that his heirs could not
be found, and at one" A swarm If
claimants made application for small
shares Of the $4,000 estate. but Elwis
o. Greene, who gave his address at box
-I,. IV.,,.t I
it all. He sent the paper which he SAID
was given to him by DE- g. b. Charles
de Freye in Chicago eight years ago."
The document contained a clause di-
recting that Elwis o. Greene should be
the testators only heir" adding that
Greene and his ''hiere"s shall inherit
the same forever Not only was the
word heirs" Incorrectly spelled, but
there was reference to "personel af
fects' and monies" The will has the
foresight to provide that Greene be ap-
pointed the executor of the will without
bonds.
To bolster up his pretentiOns Greene
inclosed what he said was letter from
DR.. de Freye and a note from B. H.
Norton, saying that he (Norton) had
seen the will and was sorry that he was
about to leave for Hamburg, so he could
not be present at the trial 20 testify to
its genuinenesS. that two of the wit
nesses of the will We're dead, but that
H. o. Bane, the third witness, still
lives in Chicago.
Experts examined the paper and pro-
nounced it a forgery from start to fin
ish 1t is replete with errors in orthog-
raphy, whereas DR. de Freye was an
educated gentleman, as is shown by his
letters. He never signed his name as
DIR. G. B. Charles de Freye, NJ. D."
the doctors acquaintances say. No
body would expect DIR" and M. D."
to appear in the same signature.
1t is the opinion Of Mr. Frecse and
the lawyers that there is forger in
Rhode Island who has a confederate in
San Francisco. This has been made
manifest in other estates where similar
attempts to obtain property have been
made.
The surest way to defeat the forg-
ers plans is to have the widest pub
LEFTY given to the facts" said Mr.
FreeSe.