The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-23
Her Daughter Alleges That Shs
Has Been False 10 Trust.
CHARGES SHARP pRACTI,E
Says Her Mother Refuses to Pay Over Hsy
Share Of The Estate as WiIIed by
Her Father.

New York. May 2s.--Daughter is array
settlement Of the $4,000 estate left by
William Jex. who died at Palisades
Rockland. n. Y. In 1896.
In trying to obtain an order from tho
surrogate OF Rockland county Mrs. Ida
c. Bayne. the daughter says Mrs. Mary
Louisa Jex. the mother. has disappeared
Mrs. Jex has been the executrix OF the
ing
Mrs. Jex formerly boarded at IS Wes,
Seventeenth street. and is said to have
disappeared on March IL. The daughter
lives at 255 Jefferson avenue Richmond
hill,
That Mrs. Jex is keeping out OF the way
is denied by her lawyer, H. NJ. Greene,
is totally unaware of the proceedings
against her.
Mrs. Bayne. who alleges that she is en-
titled to a share In the estate. intends. II
Is said. To move for an indictment against
her mother from the Rockland county
grand fury and to cause her arrest
Mrs. Jex Is the widow OF William Jex.
was a member OF the firm OF Otto q.
Meyer & Co. importing and exporting
commission merchants OF Nos Z. and
II Bridge street which went into liquida :
ton last January. Mr. Jex died. leaving
an estate Of S256. 900. He made his wife ex-
ecutr1x OF the estate and stipulated I'm
his will. Il is said, that she should retain
Q fourth share and that the remainder
should be divided equally among their
four children when they reached the age
OF twenty-five. c
The children are Mrs. Ida c. Bayne OF
rs Jefferson avenue. Richmond hill who
attained the age OF twenty-five eighteen
months ago. Mabe, Jex. who boarded
with her mother. and who was twenty.
Ave last October: William Jex, twenty
four years old. who until his mothers
alleged disappearance lived with Mrs.
Bayne, and Mrs. Laura Schoolmaker,
twenty-five years old, OF 6l3 East l65th
street
Mrs. Bayne says that the executrix had
power TO sell all property belonging to the
estate and to convert the same into cash.
This, she alleges. Mrs. Jex did, getting
rid OF the fine country home on the Pal
isades, another at Pine Bush, Orange
county. and a New York residence.
According to Mrs. Bayne. her mother
made no accounting OF the moneys re-
ceiyed.
year and half ago. Mrs. Bayne says
she began to make demands upon her
mother for her share In the property.
having reached the age of twenty five.
She was repeatedly put of. she declares.
with an excuse that Mrs. Jex had invest
cd her money and that as soon as certain
profitable returns came in II would be
more convenient 10 make a settlement.
Becoming impatient at repeated refu-
sails. declares Mrs. Bayne. she placed the
case before the surrogate OF Rockland
county In March and obtained from him
an order commanding her mother to give
an accounting of the estate. She says that
her mother undoubtedly learned of this
action. for when attempts were made to
serve the papers upon her she could not
be found At about the same time Will
liam Jex, the son, who was living at the
home Of Mrs. Bayne. in Richmond Hill.
lett her, declares the latter, and he also,
she says, cannot be found.
Two weeks ago, says Mrs. Bayne, she
obtained from the surrogate OF Rockland
county letters of administration upon the
estate OF her father and the deposition OF
har mother as executrix.
The Jex family came originally from
Honduras. Central America, and became
we'll known in New York and Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. Bayne. whose huband Is engaged
In the real estate business in partnership
with her council In this case, r. l..
Holywell, lives In one Of the finest houses
in Richmond HILL