New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-25
WATROUS WILL FIGHT.
MRS. B4LLOU GETS $4,000
Will Contest for One-third of Estate
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CONFIDENT with the fling of the will yesterday
.. Walter " Watrous. leaving TO Katherine
Floeckher. otherwise known as Katherine BAL
Ion 5000 and declaring that there was no
widow came the announcement that Mrs BAL
Ion who declares that she is the widow OF MI
gstrous, would contest the Will Henry W.
wstrous. the brother Of Walter W. Watrous' mas
declared that the family will not recognize Mrs'
TsalIou as the widow until she produces inou-
bs+atle r,roofs Of her marriage to Mr. Watrous'
The family will recognize only the viii FLED yes
terday.
Robert Livingston Cutting, counsel for Mrs'
Rsilou. last evening at his home, NO. % East
Tventy-eighth-st., made the following state
lnent:
have been retained Mrs Watre Gus S sbfe
have known Mrs. Watrous for some tle e 20 go
Introduced 10 her at her hre hO mica there
times and every time that | went there her husoaho
Tas fa N r Nsr %s and whenever he out he
introduced her such TO ms many ~ Us his
1,jfe am not only interested in this case as her
OIC o, a. vet seen Mrs Watrous since the
VIII was fled yesterday afternoon. out ha a. q
Tresert out Of town hui viii return in few DAYS;
She very much SURPRISED a. be ne aners Mrs
matT91S h 4t she ii' was the wife Of Mr. watrous
,asterssv was only s. Gg9 which amounts 20 pract1
csilv nothing II is about the same as a - Dill /
sm going TO see that Mrs. Watrous receives neT
lust claim which is as you know % he he
estate What the estate amounts to. maven lle
eas+ 5es hlt can assure YOU that 1t Is more tIan
ne anopn, %3leR s a. he Surely was continually
using MS principal, which thlnk GaiH E pe 81
ANYHOW If we DO not receive what IS que US! us &c
,or5i1e 10 law amicaby. viii take the matter 10
The courts.
Henry W watrous last evening said that he
had read the VIII OF his brother. and believed 1t
10 he the only one I'm existence. He said that
81 was 70 he the only which the family
would recognize. Mr.. Watrous stated that the
hlJk of his brothers property. he thought was
in tho business Of Wilson. Adams & Co. OF
which his brother was a member. As 10 his
brother having property in upper New-York
State he thought tho report erroneous His
l-rcthcr's estate was in the hands Of Law
rance Z. Erabree. of Fink. Embree & Cobb who
filed the viii.
Henry " Watrous and Allen W Adams are
named as executors cf the viii The residuarE
estate is left in trust the income to be devoted
"a the support. maintenance and education OF
tho testator's son Livingston v. Watrous-
When he attainS his ma jority he Is TO receive
,ba ar-711lr,Ilated income left after providing for
n. wants. and The trust * TO continue uhth ne
reaches his tairtieth birthday, when he IS 20 re-
oeiye the principal ana inc ao'uiiiuld'eu IA
GENE.
The petition sets forth that the value Of Nj
Wstrous's personal estate IS over Sl",''V'' anu
that Of his real property unknown
The petition further states that the teStato
left p his sole heir-at-law and next Of kin LlV-
inzston W watrous. and no widow or cther
children o. .
Livingston v wstTous lives At No. - East
Sixfy-6rst-st The viii was executed on Janu-
srv l. 1901 N.
Mr. cutting. after the viii was fled. called at
-ha S,Errorate's Office ard inspected the ooCu-
,77ent He placed his finger on the clause OF the
,,-iI1 leaving Mrs Ballou 5000 and said;
you viii observe the wording OF TINS Clause