The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-31
mrs, MUIR DIES IN WILL FIGHT.
PACT WITH YALE ONLY LACKED
SIGNATURE, IT'S SAID.
Daughter Of senator McPherson. and First
Game Into Public Notice by Runaway
Marriage McPherson's VIII
Cut on Her Daughters Husband.

Marriage WITS. McPnersOns WI"
Gut on Her Daughters Husband
Rdla Coleman Mcpherson Muir, the
wife Of DR.. Joseph Muir, United States
Consul General at Stockholm, Sweden,
and the daughter Of the late Senator John
r. Mcpherson Of New Jersey, died Of pneu-
monia Sunday evening at the Hotel Man
haitian, where she had been stopping for
several weeks while trying to effect a set
Element OF her mothers will more favorable
to her own interests. She was III one week.
The remains were taken to the Fearn
Company's undertaking establishment at
$50 West Thirty-fourth street where they
will be held until the receipt Of instructions
from her husband. who is In Stockholm.
Mrs. Muir was in her twenty-seventh year.
Mrs. Muir's name first came 70 tho notice
| of the public when in 1898 she ran away
from her parents and married DR.. Joseph
Muir. who was then practising as a dentist
In this city. She had been educated at
the convent Of the Sacred Heart in Paris
and was a great favorite in Washington
society. She was a woman OF splendid
appearance and very spirited. DR.. Muir
Is tall and well-built. He Is an accomplished
musician.
mFt. NluiT OF NlSr NCT frIrDb' Vao'' WV
marriage, was living at the Hotel Bristol
with her mother, her father ,SenatorMcPher-
son having already died. 1t Is said hat
when the marriage was proposed Mrs,
Mcpherson threatened TO disinherit her
daughter. The couple then went over
20 Jersey City and were married there by
a barber-Justice of the Peace.
Not long after that DIR. Muir got a con-
sular appointment and he and Mrs. Muir
went abroad. They returned on occasions
and Mrs. Muir figured in several civil suits
one of which was for s47 for cigarettes, of
which. according to the cigarette makere,
she bought 2,l00 in two months.
Mrs. Muir's last trip abroad was IN March,
DR.. Muir having obtained the appointment
as Consul General at Stockholm, Sweden.
Mrs. Mcpherson died in April n soon
after that an alleged society paper printed
a story which said that somebody interested
in her estate had Asserted that there was
a suspicion Of poisoning IN ne death;
Mrs. Muir's representatives said she had
nothing TO do with that story. Mrs.
Mcpherson actually died, according TO
her physician. from pneumonia.
Mrs. McPherson's will was admitted TO
probate in April. She left an estate valued
at s7OO. 900 and named aSe xecutors Aaron.
=. Baldwin Of Hoboken, who had managed
senator McPherson's stockyard business
for years. Mrs. Mcpherson directed In
her will that her daughter should ENJOY
the income from the estate until her death
and that Mr.. Baldwin should receive a
salary of 5000 n year for his services as
manager for Mcpherson a Co. IL was pro-
yided tina on the death of Mrs. Muir the
estate should be held in trust for the benefit
OF Mr.. Baldwin until his death, when all
the assets should he converted into cash
and distributed as follows: $4,000 TO
Christ Hospital, jersey City, $4,000 10 the
Emergency Hospital, Washington, ID. G.,
and the residue to Yale University; -,
Mrs. Muir contested her mothers will
on the ground OF undue influence. An
application was MADE Tor the removal oi
Mr.. Baldwin as executor and the appoint
mert Of nm Hdminis; raior pending the
proceedings 20 upset the probate oil the
will
Judge John A. Blair. in the Orpans' Court.
| refused 10 remove Mr.. Baldwin, but 6p-
\ pointed District COur Judge Otto Grouse
10 act with him as administrator pendente
lite.
Two or three months AFRO Mrs. Muir, it
il said, announced her Willingness 10 stop
! further litigation providing she could ma ke
n s~atisfacto-v arrangement for a settle.
'ncnt with Yale University. H"r counsel
! had several conferences with lawyers repre-
san'iug Yale and a settlement was praC-
/ ticaIly agreed upon. Tho pnTe-~ w"re not
! completed NJ the time Mrs Muir was taken
| sick and she never signed them.
MIS- Muir sought To break her mothers
will IL j. said because Mrs Mcpherson
mad i Impnssihl" for any ~ the estate
90 mss into tho hands ~ Dr.. Joseph Mulr
or any children in the event Of Mrs. Mutrs
death According 90 the testimony taken
before Judge blair, Mrs Mcpherson l"-
came rccoucilcd 70 DIR Muir before she
died
Mrs Muir left no children. The contest
81 her mothcrs will Is still IN the New Jer-
i ssv COURT