The evening times., 1901-10-12
VICTORY OF MISS FLYNN.
She Establishes Herself as the Heir
20 the Moran Estate.

BALTIMORE. Oct l2--By their verdict
rendered in the Court of Common Pleas
yesterday a jury decided that Miss Della
Flynn is the daughter of the late self
styled Miss Mary Moran" who died Ga
Baltimore on April T. 1893 The iurys
verdict was victory for Miss Flynn i'm
the suit instituted by h,r preliminary g.,
| c0utcstiuE her alleged mothers viii I,
order 80 contest the vill Miss Flynn had
to first establish her claim that she is the
so-ca'led Miss IIoTans daughter. She will
uow prosecute her suit to break the will
The estate was distributed before Miss
Flynn appeared on the scene. II is said
that if she succeeds in breaking the viii
she must proceed against the distributes
. Of the estate in order To recover it. The
Safe Deposit and Trust Company. which
was executor under tho will resisted Miss
FIyun's claim. the distributess c5ntribut-
ing 10 defend the suit The executor. e
rs said. is now liaS.e The estate was
valued Al SlS.o1G
The So-CaHed Miss Mary Moran" be
gueaJhCd her estate principally 10 rsIi-
Eigus and charitable institutions. stating
/ In her VIII that she vas unmarried. had
! no near relatives. and there was no one
VINO had any claim upon her N0twith-
standing this and the fact that she had
heid herself out To bg unmarried wom-
an, II was alleged that she was married
| 70 Patrick Flynn at Gurtymaddeu Ire
L.,id IN 1873, and eInigratcd to the United
StdltS IN 1873. leaving her husband and an
lhiint eleven months old behind hpr
| Nothing was heard Of Mrs. Flynn for a
fHIhbeF oi years. and IL was thought she
was dead Her alleged husband also carle
20 TINS country and settled I'm New York
where he died in 1SS3- 1t was alleged chat
Mrs Flynn conceived an intense dislike
ioI her husband and everybody Of the
]
Miss Flynn testified that she came 20
me United states In 1861. her mother hav-
l.!E sent ner money to pay her passage
she visited her mother in Richmond. Va
and then lived with her father in New
I YORK For some years. Miss Flynn said
She correapouded with her mother but
had not heard OF her for amout twenty
years before her death. u was said that
I. Miss Flynn first heard of her mothers
Wherea bouts and death after the distri-
button of the estate
There was no documentary ur0of Of the
marriage Of Miss Flynn's parents IL was
said, because Of the destruction by FIRE OF
the church I'm which the marriage was
performed. the records being also burn
cd. number OF photographs played a
prominent part in the case. Two Of them
We're EEencsses Of the SO-Called Miss Mo
ran, which Miss Flynn said. were sent her
uy ner mother Two others were portraits
OF Miss Flynn. and were IN Miss No
rams possession when she died
The requests in Miss Moran's viii were
as follows $4,000 To the Catholic Uni
versity Of America. at Washington. as an
endowment for the Celtic chair to pre-
serve the Gaelic language. 81. 600 10 the
Convent Of Mercy. In County GALWAY.
Ireland; 81 600 TO the Cathedral Of I.Ough-
rea. Ireland; 500 TO Bettie Jones. a colored
servant. $50 each TO four cousins I'm Ire
land. $50 TO William H Fisher ir.; and
so each TO Walter GOddin and Robert
Cummings.
The residue Of the estate amounting to
about s. oo1. was left to ST. Mary's Indus
trial School for Boys. Of Baltimore
The case was tried by William J.
O'BriCu. jT-. and John H Mulcahey Of
New York. for Miss Flynn. and Charles
J. BOnaparte, for the Safe Deposit and
Trust Company. executor