The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-03-20
MILL DROVE her
FROM HIS HOUSE
lister Of Iowa Congressman
Charges Attempt to De-
fraud Her.
INVOLVES FATHERS WILL
,yIeoed That Hull, as Executor, Tried
to Suppress a codieii to the Will,
and When Sister Protested
Drove Her AWay.

pueblo, Colo, March 18.-Some In
NESTING dispositions were read In the
oonnty court when Judge Gibson took
wv for hearing the application OF NJ.
4 Hull to have real estate belonging
a. the DR.. A. Y. Hull estate sold in or
ae,, to pay a claim which he had filed.
The application had been fought BIT
terly by Mr.. Hull's sister, Mrs. DR..
Norris, whose dispositions were read.
Attorney NJ. j. Galligan is representing
Mrs. Norris
INFO the history OF the cas- and made
some interesting as we'll as sensational
charges against her brother, J.. A.. T.
Hull, a member of congress and execu-
tor Of the estate
Mrs. Morris says that the evening
of the funeral of her father, DR.. A. Y.
Hull, her brother, Congressman j. A.
r. Hull, showed her the will and codicil
and she read ii. 1t a undated and
the codicil followed the will on the
same piece of paper. When she visited
the court house in Pueblo in August
of 1902, to examine the will and codicil,
the document was not the same. She
says:
A Different Instrument.
Il found an entirely different instru-
,neut than the one shown to me and to-
my husband by said j.. A. r. Hull, the
first being neat and in the handwriting
of the t%estator,, and without date: h
second was on an entirely different kind
of sheet Of paper and dated, and the
codicil, which was produced ten months
or more after said will was fled"
She states positively that she never
saw the will and codicil purporting to
be the last will and testament of A. Y.
Hull, and filed in Pueblo, until she saw
il in the records.
Those interested assert that it was
months after the purported will was
filed in the county our here before the
codicil was produced by the efforts Of
Mrs. Morris attorney. She charges In
her dispositions hat this codicil was.
withheld from probate because it
benefited me by money and by a mark
of approval from the said A. Y. Hull
and also because it Cancelled the legacy
of said A. Y. Hull to his daughter, Eliza
Jane Potter, which made her and her
brother, J.. A. T. Hull, to conspire to
defraud me-"
"Embattied Hero of the Stairs"
]. A.. T. Hull, the congressman, who
was chairman Of the committee on mil
.itary o~ffairs, comes in for some severe
criticisms on the part of his sister. She
tells of a meeting she had with him at
his home in Washington, D. c. He
ldQ TGluSGu 10 SET IlSiy Mis-. NCllio
states, and she walked into his house
and to his room where he was at
work. When he heard me, he came
out in excitement" states Mrs. Nor
ris, and cried three times, Ring for
the police.' He assailed me as a liar
and said he had sent the codicil with
the will to the judge of the probate
court. This Embattled Hero of the
Stairs, at the topmost landing, waving
his arms and between assaults upon his
sister as a liar and shouts to leave his
house, could not or would not answer
the civil question, Why was not the
codocil filed with the will which was
filed on March 8, and 10Y it could nave
become separated from it's ~inseparable
part Of the will"
Mrs. Morris further states that she
had no notice of the claim brought for.
ward by Milton Hull, nor did f. w
Hull, and she believes the executor
Congressman,J j. A.. T. Hull sent F. w
Hull on the high seas for the purpose
Of keeping him inaccessible.
The dispositions of Milton Hull state
the conditions of his father during M
last days, and facts concerning hi
care for him, on which he bases MS
claim against the estate.