The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-08

! SUING FOR A MISER'S WEALTH
Samuel Pages Children and His Second VIII
Fighting Over the Will He Left
Fl r. IT II IL

Special Correspondence ~ The Sunday Republic.
Hanford. cal. July The people Of
| Kings County are deeply Interested I'm the
impending contest over the VIII cf Samuel
Iarv, an eccentric old man who died near
Hartford last year leaving an estate valued
at slurt-sl For four years prior To his
death the cid fellow had been seeking "a
wife 10 comfort him In his declining years.
| lie had advertised in mhtrinOiilaI Flbhca-
! lions. but failed to snd his ideal untll after
q correspondence with Lillian Lesl" 6i.sh-
| neii, u beautiful young woman "i Los
Angeles. possessed q many accomplish
mtnts. Only short time before death sum
inonet the venerable ranchtr h" married
This young wuman-the second upon whom
| lie had bestowed the name OF faS"- rag" =
children. HgiiuSt whom ne was greatly en-
Filtered because Of attempts 10 secure pos
session of his property. accuse her OF being
an adventures fhc widow Indignantly re-
SCENTS this and SAYS they are seeking To Dc
rtiNe h"r and her posthuinouS enid OF
every N,Sti>c OF their INHERITANCE ana csi-t
. Them pennies upon tn" world. Sh" as
s'GtS that the machigatt"ns 81 the emil
, dF"n drove her husband 10 hopeless insanity
and his grave The testimony to Ire given
N the coming trial. the young woman De
cl1res, viii DE as scnsatl' ma! as any that
has ever been heard In the courts of Cali
furEin.
The Page ranch. where Samuel Page
passed the last seventeen years OF his NE,
Is less than three miles from Hartford
Eucalyptus trees tower I'm stately grandeur
round tho bleak and melancholN hoiSe'
every feature Of which reveals the grasp
:
Page was born In lS-,} In Pennsylvan'a OF
genuine Dutch stock and married Nancy
'ofrman in 1874, They came to Calioil iiit
and settled at Hanford about twenty years
ago. Samuel PnEes wife died nfty-two
years after their marriage. and ne con-
I tinue'l TO live ON the homestead IL
Page was misery. and thus gained ms
wealth He never took bath ;:.itii his
second marriage. lie never gave To any
fathers funeral h" exchanged an ola home
spun suit for the good suit that clothed
the corpse and sold 1t for SO;
After his first wifi. died, h. sought to
marry Catherine NJ. Adams, a woman bar
her. hut she was worldly wise. and on the
eve of the nuptiais insisted upon $500 cash.
and the home ranch. Pas" refused and the
marriage was off. Then she sued him for
Sl5Nn for breach Of promise. and Pag". 10
FOR - Il her, decided all his property To- two
Of his children Doctor Solomon {. Page
and Mrs. Mary Ann Carver. with the eS-
press understanding that as soon as the
- him Miss Adams got a verdict for S1ut.
which Page paid. but his children refused
T. restore his property 10 him Page sued
them Is did his other children. Henry &.
and Elias G. Page.
Page was still anxious to marry. and an
swered many matrimonial advertisements
l;Ut all the women wanted cash in advance
and Page did not marry any Of them.
Finally he heard Of Mrs. Lillian leslie
known in the literary world Of the Coast.
He wrote her telling OF his wealth and his
loneliness. and asking her to marry him ami
edit his religious literature After much
CORES cndsnc.. Mrs. Bushnell came 70
EInfoTt- Page hal promised she should
I've AT hotel he owned in Hanford until
the marriage. hut 20 the ranch they went
To permit her TO inspect the place. She
found the exterior and interior OF the house
di!apidated and .IntiGy. hut he pleaded that
the Influence Of woman had been absent
from the ranch so long that everything. in
Guiding himself had gone To ruin ani
waste She saw enough in two minutes TO
disgust 4 sensitive woman OF refinement: