The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-13
Late Father Malone
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to was the one that George l.. Fox of
NO. IoI Taylor street, Williamsburg, al
: reyes was made on Nov. 6. He has fur
| ther alleged that after the frequent Wis
us Oh sylvester L. Malone, a nephew
! OF the teStator, to his office, he returned
the VIII to Father Malone on Dec. %.
ana tnat the Priest turned it over to
his nephew.
If there is a claim made" Father
/ Bel+Qrd continued, that Father Malone
died interstate the Church simply wants
| 70 see that the administrator appointed
/ IS Mt person, and that his bonds are
sufhcIent. The only will that L have
any. knowledge about is the one men
Lloned- Such property as may have
| been LETT to the Church is only trifling,
| Dut SUN 1t must be protected
! Have you refused to allow the reIa-
tlVes of the dead Priest possession of
father Malone's personal effects?"
by no means" he replied. For one
! reason, none of them have been to see
me since the body was removed from
| mere. There are certain Things which
r ather Malone left which were his per-
SonaI property, and other effects which
belong to the Church. Just what was
ms and just what belongs to the Church
IS to be settled. Under the law of the
Brooklyn diocese every Priest is re-
1890 ~ 4Alctht oil inventory VI W IIdI Is
his personal property and what belongs
to the Church Anything that a Priest
buys with his own money is his per
sonaI property. 1t is otherwise if pur-
chased with the Church funds.
When there is no such inventory"
ne continued, "the presumption is that
everything belongs to the Church.
All our search has failed to discover
that Father Malone left any such in
ventory. Whatever property his Tela-
tives can show belonged to Father Ma
lone will be cheerfulIy turnei over. His
effects are still in his room untouched
and will remain SO for the present"
Father Belford said that he had no
intention of referring to the troubles
that have existed to his congregation
next Sunday, when he will celebrate
Mass for the first time. He denied most
emphaticalIy that Father Joseph
O'Brien, whose feud with Father Ma
lone's RELATIVES started the troubles, was
to be removed.
Sylvester L. Malone last night again
refused to discuss the matter, saying
that at the proper time the family
would issue q statement.
According to Mr.. Fox, a retired law
yer and lifelong friend of Father Ma
lone, the will he drew up for the Priest
on Nov. divided the estate nearly
equally between the family and the
Church. There was belGeathed to Miss
Winifred Brennan, 81 GOO; to the Sisters
of the Bon Secour Order, $500; to the
Rev. D. J. Sullivan of st. Johns Col
lege, $500, and to Bishop Mcdonnell,
81 600 in trust for Joseph L. O'Keefe, a
nephew of Miss Brennan, who is study
ing theology. Various other requests
of his books are made to Catholic hos
pitfalls, and 81 500 to Sylvester L. Ma
lone, the nephew.
There have been persistent rumors of
a second will having been made on or
about Dec. 6. The relatives refuse to
discuss this, however. 1 was told by a
prominent ecclesiastic of the Church
last night that their belief is that the
will of Nov. was destroyed and that
the claim will be made by relatives that
the Priest died intestate.