The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-26
STRUGGLE FOR
WOMAN'S MONEY
ESTATE OF AN ECCENTRIC RE-
CLUSE is AGAIN IN THE HANDS
OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR.

| SAN FRANCISCO October 15.-For
n second time within four months the
| Public Administrator is making an eff
| fort to secure possession of the estate
of the late Mrs. Emma X. Loring, the
wealthy and eccentric old women
whose partially decomposed body was
found in her home at 24O9 Sacramento
street on June 23d, nearly a month al
ter her death. The present struggle
for the estate, of $4,000 value, is
! brought about by the death last We'd
nesday of Mrs. Emma NJ. Attenborough
the putative daughter of the eccentric
Mrs. Lorlng. AT the time the body Of
Mrs. Loring was found by the police in
her lonely home the Public Admins
traitor took possession of the premises
and all property belonging to her es-
tate, but that official later relinquished
control of the estate to Mrs. Atten-
borough, who succeeded in securing let
ters of administration after a brief le-
gal struggle.
Mrs. Attenborough established her
claim as the heir-at-law of Mrs. Lor-
ing, setting up the declaration that
she was the old lady's adopted daughter
The estate at the time of Mrs. Loring's
death was alleged to consist of jewels
and other valuable trinklets to the
amount of $1,000, besides real. estate
and personal property in Oakland and
San Francisco valued at $1,000. This
seems to have been an entirely too con-
servative estimate of the value of the
estate and an official of the Public
l A Il Y,,ft, LET, to-. oHa
the total value of the Loring estate at
nearly $4,000. Counted in this APP
praisement is the house and real estate
at 24OO. Sacramento street, where Mrs.
Loring passed the last lonely days of
her life.
Mrs. Emma K. Loring was a woman
of education and refinement, but
known, in the last decade of her life
as a very. eccentric and "testy" old
lady. She was the widow of a New
York physician. In 1898 Mrs. Loring
closed up her residence in this city and
went to Europe. She visited in Ham
| burg, Germany and, after starting to
return to San Francisco, mysteriously
! disappeared for more than a year.
| During this period Mrs. Attenborough
who claimed to be her daughter, be-
gan legal proceedings to have a
| guardian appointed for Mrs. Loring's
estate. This action was defeated by
the sudden temperance of the old
| lady. The two women, mother and
daughter, were never on visiting or
speaking terms after that, and up to
the time of her death Mrs. Loring re-
fused Mrs. Attenborough admission to
her home. Neighbors and friends who
had known Mrs. Loring for years have
said that she was a recluse and an in
valid for years prior to her death and
that she had a hallucination that some
one was trying to poison her.
| On June 23d last William Martin, a
colored man from Oakland who oc-
casionally did odd jobs for Mrs. Lor-
ing, called at her home in this city,
and, discovering a gas jet burning in
the kitchen in midday, called the at
tention of the police to this fact. When
entrance to the house had been forced
the body of the old lady was found in
her bed. She had been dead at least
! three weeks and me Toroner's invcs-
tigatiou showed that she had de d
from natural causes.
The same day the Pubic Adininis-
traitor placed his seal upon Mrs. LUr-
ing's house and took possession of all
her property, ami then came the con
fiict with Mrs. Attenoorough. This
lat)ter's heirs-her husband and four
children-are now brought into con-
| fict with the Public Administrator,
who has again taken possession of the
| Loring estate.