The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-19
DEATHBED WILL ATTACKED.
STATE SEEKS TO TAKE PROPERTY
LEFT by SARAH WALKER.
she Dictated the Document and Signed II
With Her Mark Surrogate Upholds 1t
Left Most Of Her Estate TO Alfred 8.
MaIcomson and DIR. Thomas NJ. Acken.

A peculiar will. made by a woman on her
deathbed, was the subject oil a contest
argued yesterday before Surrogate Fltz-
gerald. The state appeared as the oon-
testant, through Attorney General Mayer.
alleging that the will was invalid and that
as no next OF kin or heirs at law were forth
coming, the estate would revert to the
State. The estate is estimated to be worth
considerably more than 500 100,
The testatrix was Sarah A. Walker. That
was her maiden name, though she was
known vario usly az Mrs. and Miss Walker
She IS said to have once been a variety
actress. Though there was no datinit testi-
mony the subject, 1t would appear that
she was once the wife Of a man named Paul,
an d that on divoroing him, or separating
from him. she resumed her maiden name.
November %, 1905, Is written on a sheet OF
paper headed, Bedside Notes, Home Bureau
So West Thirty-ninth street 1t reads:
Last will and testament Of Sarah A.. Walker
House In Charleston, SC, 10 go to capt
william II. Evans during his lifetime; prop
erty is In the name OF Addie Paul. AFTER
said Capt. W. II. Evans's death to 20 to the
City Hospital for use OF white people only.
A lot in MONTGOMERY. Ala Din name OF
n "ulh'l w ~ w >"v 49,
Montgomery for white people only. surgical
ward. :,
First request. After all debts are paid
monument erected over my motber's grave
tJane +. Walker at a cost OF about 81 500.
Inscription for monument TO be found In VIII
which is in trunk.
Houses in New York city. i2i and 1873 West
Forty-seventh street. TO be let till time Of
eale, and rents payable to Mr.. Malcomson.
Second: Executors are to be as follows:
Alfred s. Malcomson OF Lakewood. N, j., and
Thomas NJ. Acken, NJ. D., OF 207 West Forty
hfth street.
Proceeds Of property In New York city,
i2i and 1913 West Forty-seyenth street. to go
TO Alfred s. MalcoInson and executors.
Fifteen hundred dollars cash more TO 60
to the surgical ward for white people In City
Hospital. Charleston. s. c.
Personal effects to go with residue OF es-
tate. X.
This Is the cross mark Of SARAH A. WALKER,
witnessed and known by
EDWARD E. TuLL,
lIe West Eightieth street.
November 2s, 1905.
HELEN MoaIssEY,
$40 West Fifty-ffth street.
Mrs, Wal ker, who was about fifty years
old and had, till her last illness, lived in D
furnished room in West FoTty-seventh
street, put her mark 70 the will Just an hour
before she died, She had been kept alive
for a couple Of days by injections Of nitro
glycerine and s~trychnine.
After hearing some medical and other tes-
timony Surrogate Fitzgerald decided that the
will was valid in form and substance, but
whether the property could DO legally dis
trihuted under II, he. said, was a question
which would have to be determined later.
DR., Edward b, Tull, a witness to the will,
eaid that he had been Mrs. Walkers pedi-
cal adyirer for q long while, but that he
knew little or nothing Of her history or fam
all internal disease. and that tho drugs
administered to her were given 10 keep
her alive,
DR., Thomas NJ. Acken, o beneficiary In
tho vii. said that he wes present when y
<ut from Mrs. Walkers ipstruotinps. she
was anxious, he said, To change q former