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,
900 to His Wife-Son Says She Deceived
Her Husband and Refuses to PROVIDE
for Hlmself-She Has Married Again.

Her uusband and Refuses to Provide
for Hlmself-She Has Married Again.
Accusing his mother OF gross lnhdeiity
to her marriage VOWS and OF practising LOT
wears Systematic course of deceit upon ms
father William V. Lester. a youth just past
2l, has begun a suit in the Supreme court
TO have the will Of his father, Henry " Les
ter. a broker. declared invalid. The son
maintains that his father was induced TO
make the will, bequeathing everything 70
his wife, Mary E. Lester, through the latters
fraudulent Vaccinations, leading him to be-
lave that she vas virtuous, sober and
respectable. o,
Henry " Lester died on April %. 1908.
and within a year of his demise HIS Wido~
hecame the wife OF Lewis r. 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
uent On business. This will was probated
here on NAV S, 1903. 1t provided that all
his estate. valued nv the son at over $2oO, eco,
should 90 TO the WIDOW, who was made sole
executrix.
Lester declared in his will that he pur-
nosely omitted any specific provision for
Mccall and Herbert Steever Lester the
latter two OF whom are still under legal
ace. 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 exeoutr,3
and sole beneficiary, Mrs. Lester or as
she is now, Mrs. Garner. has enjoyed ihll
possession OF the estate since her husband
death. go, x.,rd
totake away her character and her fortune
alleging that she has failed absolutely
TO make any provision for him and that she
obtained possession Of the estate by fraud
In the complaint drawn by his attorney,
Charles O. Mas. and sworn 10 2y y"nhng
are ,r act forth at length. He says that ne
father was man Of very temperate habits
and much attached to his home. His busl-
meas. however, required his frequent alb
sence, and 1t was during these absences nee r
according to the son . ma, :. mt n he com
plant that for many years she was re-
peatedly intoxicated when the elder Lester
VAS away from home. Young Lester
swears that he often saw her IN the com
pany Of others. In an intoxicatea condE .;th
He swears that she became infatuated WIN
one Blanchard whose first name he does
not know, and that she offered to desert her
| 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 Hote
Imperial in this city. He also charges mel
with consorting with one el Harry "ifhs snd
With Elisha Whitehead and others.
His mother often boasted, young Lester
saws, that she had pulled the wool over
her husbands eyes for. years, and woulo
continue to do 80. Others, the son says
to whom the real state Of facts was known
| tried to tell the elder Lester about his wife,s
derelictions, but their efforts to warn him
were fruitless.
The son has named his brother and SIS
ter as codefendants with the mother n me
suit he has brought to have, the will de-
| clared invalid. It is said that they are
| living with the mother at Green wich. Conn
Mr.. Mas declined to discuss the suit yester-
day. saving simply that he knew nothing
| more than what was embodied in the com
plant Jolne. Larkin Rathbone have put
In an appearance for Mrs. Garner and are
prepared to carry the legal contest to the
highest court Mrs. Garner is said to be
deeply affected by the conduct OF her son.