Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-07
STEW ARTS MILLIONS
EFFORT TO WRENCH THE FOR
TUNE FROM HILToN's HEIRS.
Once Again Skeleton of Merchant
Prince to Be Dragged Out and
Displayed in Court.

The New York American today says.
Twenty-four years after A. T. Stewards
death, and after the death of his widow and
of Judge Hilton, who so mysteriousy came
into possession of all the Stewart millions
and enjoyed them to the end an effort is to
be made to wrench the fortune. now grown
in value to possibly hundred million dol
lars, from the heirs of Henry Hilton, on be-
half of people who assert their possession OF
evidence proving their relationship with A.
T. Stewart.
Notice has been served on former Judge
Horace Russell trustee of the estate. that
motion will be made in the supreme court
within a few days to place on the calendar
the suit of John Stewart third cousin of A.
T. Stewart, for his pro rata share IN the
"Old London Streets property on Broad
way, which is a part of the estate. The no.
tice is served by c. Gale Needham of EN-
buy, Needham & WALTON, attorneys, of No.
"A Pine street.
Merely a Test Case
This is merely a test case. Should II pre-
vail, similar suits will at once be entered
by John Stewart and the sixty other col
lateral relatives of the old dry goods mil
lionaire, for the Stewart building, the Park
Avenue Hotel, the Manhattan Club, the st.
Nicholas Hotel and all the rest of the i'm
mensely valuable real estate now held by
the Hilton heirs.
There have been other suits by some or
the sixty, but they were thrown out OF
court, because the relationship alleged was
not conclusively proved. John Stewart and
his attorneys say there Will be no such
fault with the present action. John Stewart
has come from Belfast to make his claim
and with him are witnesses who are de-
pended upon to make the proof of relation
ship absolute.
Among his witnesses is the Rev. John
Fitzpatrick, cousin of John Stewart and
a missionary father in the Order of Obiates.
He comes from CeylOn, India, to give fur
Their proof of the relationship.
Besides his witnesses, John Stewart is
armed with documentary evidence and rec
ords to establish his connection with the
famous millionaire. Two of his Witnesses
Miss Lamb and John Bradley of Belfast
are very old, and come to tell OF the VISITS
of A. T Stewart to Belfast, his recogni-
ton of the Belfast Stewards as relatives
and his annuities to his uncles there.
Hilton Accused of Fraud.
The preparation of the case is in itself
long and romantic story. The collection of
evidence extended to nearly every quarter
of the globe. and is the work, principally,
of Albert Denans d'Artigues, a French law
yer, who has been concerned in the effort
to recover the estate for the blood relatives
of A. T. Stewart for more than seven years
He is the actual attorney in the case, he
says, but, not being memper OF the Amer
lean bar, he appears through the American
lawyers.
According to the brief drawn by Monsieur
d'Artigues, the whole case of the Stewart
millions will be reopened. He attacks the
will by which the estate went to the
widow of A T. Stewart, denying that the
document produced at the time of the
death was actually Mr.. Stewards will, and
he attacks the transfer of the estate to
Henry. Hilton by the widow.
He fatty accuses Judge Hilton of bare
faced fraud aud deliberate deception OF the
courts in stating that there were no rela-
tfves of A T Stewart alive, when he actu-
ally knew of their existence and that they
had been recognized by Mr.. Stewart.