The Newtown bee., 1905-11-03

SHE REITERATES THE STATEMENT
 THAT RONALDS LOVED HER AS A DAUGHTER AND THAT HIS GIFTS
 WERE ALL VOLUNTARY. Il FROM | THE NEW YORK AMERICAN. l Heirs of Peter Lorillard Ronalds
 have now more to worry over than his
 transfer of a million dollars worth of
 property to Hiss Elizabeth N. Blake.
 His will is to be filed in day or two. Then further sensational disclosures are expected.
 | What the sons and other relatives particularly fear is that MT ROnaldS may have made further disposition of 1 part of his vast fortune to the woman who has lived like daughter in the aged mans home the past l9 years to the exclusion of his two sons, daugh- ter and widow.
 This document is now in the hands of A braham l. Elkus, counsel for Miss Blake, and who is said to have been the lawyer who drew the deeds now questioned by the heirs.
 Just few more days remained for the filing of the will according to law, and the retcence of Miss Blake and her lawyer to discuss the beQueStS is taken by some of those at interest to mean that mahy gifts to the friend of the millionaire hOrSeman and famed whip involving very great part of the estate will be shown.
 "I am not prepared to discuss this affair just at present." said Lawyer Elkus, representing Miss Blake, "but, it is quite possible that we will have something to say within very few days"
 FAMILY IS PREPARING FOR THE WILL. Edgar J. Phillips of the law firm of Phillips and Avery, counsel for young Reginald Ronalds, who has made the sensa tional allegations that Miss ulent methods to induce his father to give her various parcels of real estate, said yesterday: "1 know the will is now in the hands of MT ElkuS. Just when he will file it for probate l am not advised, but it must be within the next few days. Of course, up to the present time we stand upon our con- plaint of the deeds made in MT Ron- aids life time. The time to discuss the will of the deceased will be after it is fled"
 That there will be stubborn fight made in the courts over the princely E II Ol UlC dSCO UO A1 Blake by the heirs and that some sen- satiOnal disclosures will be made is al- ready indicated by the bitterness that has been aroused on both sides by the filing of the complaint alleging that Miss Blake brought SpiritualiSm Into play in inducing the old man to give her so large share of his realty.
 Standing beside the valet of her for mer benefactor at the telephone, and speaking through him to an "Ameri- can' reporter, Miss Blake said: "I shall never yield one penny of this for tune to the claimants. They have Swindler, and 1 shall not budge. They have started this fight in the courts, and they must prove their allega- tiOnS"
 The valet, whose name is J. Ball, said that Miss Blake was really too ill | over the affair to talk for herself, but | he declared for her that the heirs would l be called to vigorous accounting in court for the charge that she had told Mir Ronalds that spirits of his dead ancestors had directed that he turn ty to her and have the deed executed before his death.
 On the other hand, cablegram to the "American," last night, from London states that the widow of Peter Lorillard RonaldS who has been living apart from him for 28 years, and who is prominent in society there, does not conceal her determination to fight the claims of the young woman to the bit ter end.
 Mrs Ronalds received the "Ameri- cans" London correspondent and made the following statement: