The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-06
SMIRCHES HIS OWN MOTHER.
YOUNG LESTER SEEKS TO BREAK
HIS FATHERS WILL.
Dead Broker Left whole Fortune OF $780,
600 to His Wife-Son Says She Deceived
Her Husband and Refuses to Provide
for Himselr-she Has Married Again.

Accusing his mother of gross infidellty
to her marriage vows and Of practising 1or
wears a systematic course OF deceit upon MS
father William V. Lester youth just past
81 has begun suit in the Supreme Court
TO have the will of his father, Henry V. Les
ter. a broker, declared invalid The son
maintains that his father was induced 10
make the will, bequeathing everything 10
his wife Mary E. Lester, through the latters
fraudulent Vaccinations, leading him to be-
lieye that she was virtuous, sober and
respectable.
Henry " Lester died on April %, 1903
and within a wear of his demise his widow
became the wife of Lewis X Garner, with
whom she is now living at The Naples,
Greenwich, Conn. Lester had made will
on Oct. 8, 1901, at Chicago, where he often
went on business. This Will was prooateo
here on May S, 1903 1t provided that all
his estate, valued by the son at over S2ooooo'
should go to the widow, who was MADE SOLE
executrix.
Lester declared in his will that he pur-
posely omitted any specific provision ior
his three children. William V" Edlth
Mccall and Herbert steeveT Lester, the
latter two of whom are still under legal
AGE, because of his absolute confidence
in his wife's Judgment and integrity ana
his conviction that she would take proper
measures to bring up the children properly
and provide for their future. AS eAecu1r,a
she is now, Mrs. Garner has enjoyed full
sls of the estate since her husband
death. an, s.r,,ard
to take away her character and her 1ortune,
alleging that she has failed apsoiutehly
,,,;o fNr
obtained possession of the estate by fraud
In the complaint drawn by his attorney
Charles O. Mas, and sworn to ny young
Lester the sons charges against his mo'her
are set forth at length. He says th h, ms
and much attached to his home. His busi-
ness ,s however, required his frequent alb
sence. and 1t was during these absences.
according to the son. that Mrs. Lester
lapsed. Young Lester swears IN the com
peatedly intoxicated when the elder Lester
was away from home. Young Lester
swears that he often saw her In the com
pany of others. in an intoxicated conGi,lo;nl a.
He swears that she became infatuated WIN
one Blanchard, whose first name ne Goes beS
infant children and elope with blanchard.
Another man with whom Lester connects
his mothers name is Frank McNally, with
whom he swears she stopped at the Hotel
Imperial in this city He also cha Wia 5, h rn
| at Pine Lake, Wis, and Ration, n. NJ, and
with Elisha Whitehead and others,
His mother often boosted, young Lester
says, that she had pulled the wool over
her husbands eyes for, years, and would
continue to do so. Others the son says,
| to whom the real state of facts was known
tried to tell the elder Lester about his wife 8
derelictions but their efforts to warn him
were frutless.
| The son has named his brother and sis
ter as codefendants with the mother IN the
suit he has brought to have the will. de-
clared invalid. It is said that they are
! living with the mother at Greenwich, Conn.,
| Mr. Mas declined to discuss the suit yester-
day, saying simply that he knew nothing
! more than what was embodied in the COM
plant Jolne, Larkin 4 Rathbone have put put
prepared to carry the legal contest to the
| highest corrt. Mrs. Garner is said to be
deeply affected by the conduct of her son.