The Penn's Grove record., 1906-10-19
STOPS Fight FOR MILLIONS
Mrs WSter QuailS Before Bit OF
Paper Weightman Left.
Sheet, on Which Wealthy Chemist
Wrote Opinion ot Daughter.in-
Law Brought Fgom Hiding

Philadelphia Confronted with 4
scrap og CHOW papsr, upon whica
a-r fashst-in-iaw. t.o late william
WEI h.mau. had written his last
wi es and thought aoucarnina ner.
Mrs. Jones Wistsr auanaorad ha.
suit against Mrs. saae M Weight
man Walker, lel sislarir-law. TO
whom We gilman left all ol his $50
C00, 700.
Rather thau have tla eoassl Is Oh
The memorandum read ill., court Mrs.
WistaC Acknowledged LetaaJ and
gave up her fight permitting la. st-
t%0rnays to beg Mis- Weaker 20 make
no opposition 10 an indefinite con
tInu5nCe Of ,Le case, so that The best
possible face would De put upon MIS-.
Wister's backdown.
The admission Of defeat came AT %
moment whaG interest il Tia test
mcn} wts at dts neieht sng rher Il.
seemed tact A,gs Nisret's remark
able charge ABOUT I e conduct and
Intellectual capacity oI the aged
chemist were about to be substau-
hated.
IT'D holding back Uutii the very ,ast
muinsat the weapon iu her posses
sion, 20d choosing t4e most poterr
time and pa4ce Mis-. Walker takes
full revenge f9r tle -Ocia. sights put
upon her BY MIS-. WisteI when the
iGfast woman ia America was trying
TO enter he 5-cius We circle af 3hila
deiphia society, III which Mrs Wister
has been q p0We~
Upon the papeg there apDaaraI &C.
cording To the be} r Of Mrs. Wiser s
attorneys, the codicl HI witch
W~elghrnaaa might nave made pryY,s-
ION fer Aa ~graHGQAu ghters hrs
Wister's children. % Dehal. Of
whom Mrs. WiSter contested tile WITH
Neither codicil nor viii do tnn
paper prove 10 be, With the keen
ness Of 8 man who bas made his $50
100000 and is determined to protect
what he had garnered and devise Do
as he saw iii, Weightman had care
fully transcribed Hpon this bit OF
DaDel what purpCrfad to be mis- pre-
Else relations with Mrs Nister, with
whom he Is SaiI 70 have been in love.
Moreover. he had declared couclu-
siveiy in that document that he rad
Nc intention Of having Mrs. Y ,stsr
Of his grandchildren share q $
wealth. He completely washed his
hands of the Jones YVisters ard
Jotted down some statement concern
ing which Richard VAIN Meirs, 4 son
in-law Of Mrs. Wistsr ana nephew Of
AIRS. Walker, made this statement:
For the sake Of Mrs. Wiser K
would rather cut ont my tongue than
dtyuige the contents Of it. Until the
paper was produced at to-dav's r,.r-
ing only four persons ia the urld
had seen Ii. hope with ell III ear
nestness OF which I am capable 5baL
no n else will ever see it.
Unless the other side should per
nit it to escape them, I feel sure that
the scrap Of paper which turned the
current OF to-day's events will never
he made public Il Is buried deener
than the foundations of my Office
building. Il is neither a will nos 2
codicil. but what II contains caused
the abrupt ending Of the case.
Mrs. Wister said her fatler-.I-Iav'
shed her SO wen that when her 6rs.
husband. his son. died he was eager
to marry her Weightmaa's mental
state was question ed by medical men
VINO were friends OF the contestant.
Among the recIliafities for which he
was known we're refusals ever To
gave Il lent Al CHARITY an0 hatred or
music and children