The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-12-02
Addison Miner
Causes. a Big
Surprise.
COMES FROM EAST.
Tells What Miss
D0lb6GF Said.
OF Will.
HER REASON SANE.

There was surprise when. the: name. of
Addison G.. Miner WAS called as "a wit
ness. il. the. D6Ibeer win case yesterday;
IT q far cry TO New. York and: every
P body had thought he, was. 1ndustrIousiy
prosecuting his clever werk in. the stu
dio he has opened there: unimindfdl Ct
The great lawsuit that is: going on in
Judge Coney,s court. But, he. was
slowed away in the courtroom crowd
and tie testimony he had TO give. bor-
dered ..6n the sensational: Bertha Del
beer had told him the day. she made her
wan why she bestowed so. much. Of her
bounty on Etta Marion Warren, and
lsll0red those Of kin. 80 .
MSS Warren has: been mother,
BROTHER sister ana father 10 me, Miss
DO beer had. said. and: she is the only
one. VI 40. IS: near. and dear TO me in all
the H6rfd. Nlss-Warrcu Is the only
person i care. Tor and I have seen TO II
-llat she VIII. be well settled for life If
The Money came TO. me from my
fazher No nay mothers relatives were
never. friendly with my father. They
never crossed his. Threshold. Mrs.
Douglas Watson lis. the. only one of
them l. have. regard for. but i made no
cared foI Row and IN a feE. years viii
haR & lnofe money. than 1. have any
way, -. -:
Miner declared that Miss. Dolbeer wis
certainly yatioral, wten- she made
the. FOREGOING statement. He said he
never had the. slightest occasion TO
F. question her mental couGition. 49,.
- TO eNpIain further why the testatrix
left M .Qeguest-fog her aunt. Mrs J. L
MQoGEs:lhe witness related a -conversa-
tion he had with: Miss Dolbeer shortly
after Z hfistInaS last year.
Mrs. Needy gave. Mrs. .Watson's
-Ea By. nothfng.f0 e-hristrIsss." Miss. DOL
beer had. s.;aads rs: Moody has newer
p been u, see'. her daughter.. not even
making qEiry dVlhep- the baby: was
born Wllether. me. mother. was dead or
alive . ~. 49,: q.
p HER FEELING. STRONG.
To this. exhibition Of strong feeling
against. 1lEs. Needy: the witness had
mercy r. remarked Well she is: pretty
she IS rot ..Eamar- being. . was Miss
2ofheer.s. ftral comment.
Mrs Mpody:ris a. Sister. of. the. con-
testant A66lph, Scliander. and Miss
I2olbeers mother wss.-thefr sister.
Z. II rad not been generally known that
" MISS LtQl5eer ever gave. her reasons to.
e any perseE for. her disposition. of:-tfe
fsFaIe and -Ai1zner S IN heralded. appear,
. sTee. II the case came like a .bOmbsben.
. y. trarsplred IN the :cross-exapinatio
mat The: pEonopents -had<not~ learned of
the Important test in1cn,y aIizner could
. give I'll. week ago and:-he was. sum
rn9ned by telegraph ont Of. The winter
SHOWS, arriving IN San Francisco on
! tuesday. evening. 3: =. =. :
His acquaintance with. Miss. Dolbeer
was the closest. ~. any witness who
mas test1hed. ,D1iring the. six months
precedlng-. her departure IN the Latter
part of. last: April he called. on her
every Gay. and. they. became ,confiden-
. tial friends AT. no time was he led
70 suspect her mental. condition. -.
u was on. the afternoon Of: April %:
the day she executed the testament:
that she told him of. its provisions.
me witness had called or her at her
B home, she was IN a. happy frame Of
MIND. and. declared il was the first day
she felt as II she were going abroad
Tor which: all plans had then. been
made. @...- %
IN reciprocal mood Miner. asked
= what she had left him in her will. "a.
b. pianOla- or a kitchen: stove -
NOT IN NEED OF REST CURE:
Miss DoIbeer: had also protested To.
the witness that she was not in need
OF the rest cure" her physician or
oered her 70. take before starting. on
the trip 10 Europe. She. said She felt
very vel and. became more tired from
lxing m bed than being up and abeut.
Miss 'Dolbeer; had subsequently
askea the witness not to- sneak of
what she told him concerning her
VIII. explaining: that il might cause
trouble with relatives
Rudolph 'Spreckels. when .calIAd m
the stand, described his ac6uai1tance
with Miss Dolbeer as having been ox;e,:
number OF years, but his testimony
was directed chiefly to thu 6ccasio-3s
when they. met m Paris last. lime
shortly before the testatrix met her
death. The witness, Mrs. SnreckaIs
and her sister. Miss Jolliffe. T-rre en-
joying q soJourn" in the French. csnitaI
when Miss DOlbeer and Miss Warray'
were there. 81
On June 3 or 4. the day after the
arrival Of the witness, Miss UoIhee~
called on Mrs. Spreckels, and he vas
present during the visit, which Lasted
an hour. A week later the Spreckelsas
met the testatrix twice. and again o.,
June 20. the day he started with his
wife and Miss JOlliffe oman autonobfIe
tour OF FIVE days When they return,
ed TO Paris Miss DOlbeer and Miss
q Warren. had started for America.
Ia the conversations that the Wit
ness had with Miss Dolbeer she ex-
pressed a dislike for Paris because of
the foreign tongue that she could. not