Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-23

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lady. our wedding occurred at her
fathers home In st. Louis My wife
was in Los Angeles last year, appear
ing in The Pit and a revival of
'Trilby.'
Mr. Hamilton was born in Topeka,
kas., where his father is claim agent
of the Santa Fe road.
Actress Now an Heiress
A special dispatch to The Herald
from st. Louis says:
The sudden and surprising termina-
ton of the suit to break the will If
Christian PEPPER millionaire tobacco
manufactures, establishes the status of
Jane Oker, actress, as an heiress to a
fortune which will probably grow to a
million under the astute management
OF her father, Christian Cornelius,
known as Christian PEPPER Jr., but her
stage plans will not be more than tenn
porarily affected by the favorable turn
of affairs.
Miss Oker, who was Miss Minnie Pc
per before her marriage a year ago,
and is now in private life Mrs. Hale
Hamilton, will remain at the home of
her parents, at 4419 Forest Park boula-
ward, the greater part of the winter,
resting. Later she expects to resume
her stage career.
Miss Oker came from New York to
be at the trial of the important case
arriving just before it began. Accom-
panied by her mother and part of the
time by her younger sister, she attended
every session of the court and paid
keen attention to the proceedings. AL
though her personal interest in the out
come was paramount, she was not in
sensible to the dramatic value of the
incidents of the trial, and as it was
the first time that she had been in at
tendance at court trial, she gained eX-
perience which will be useful to her
Had Part in 1.-THE Pit"
Miss Oker has played the past three
winter seasons in THE Pit" and has
been a member of different stock COM
panies during the summers. She has
worked hard and has made gratifying
progress in her profession and her fa-
ther insists that she remain at home
and rest this winter.
Although the will suit has terminated
and the will under which Miss Oker's
father is an heir has been esta blished
with the assent of the four children of
| Christian PEPPER, who were trying to
| break it, there is not to be an end to
| litigation. A partition suit was filed in
the circuit court Tuesday by Frederick
G. PEPPER and Christian PEPPER jr., who
were defendants in the will suit, for a
| PAL llllOll VI lllG IGdl GSldIe. Inc uGlGllu-
ants named are Charles G. PEPPER, his
wife, Caroline, Adolph PEPPER, Margaret
p. Bell, her husband, Nicholas, and Car
oline j. PEPPER, who were the plaintiffs
| in the will suit.
The real estate sought to be parti-
toned is in the same condition as it was
at the time of the death of Christian
Pepper, September 26, 1903, none of 1t
having been disturbed in the process of
administering the estate except that the
property Of the PEPPER Tobacco Ware
house company, which was sold for the
satisfaction of notes for $246, O00 exc
cuted individually by Christian PEPPER,
was bought in by Fred PEPPER, executor,
for the amount of the notes.
The other property is located as fol-
lows Nos. 92S to 934 North Sixth street
931 to 935 North Sixth street, COS and 610
Wash street, HOO to lilo Market street.
8 and IL South Eleventh street, 1909 and
1211 South Twelfth street, 1422 and 1414
Morgan street, 1923 and 1425 Linden
street, 115 and III Geyer avenue, 4445
San Francisco avenue, the family home
stead, and 320 acres in Crawford couu-
ty, Missouri.
"Moral Claim" of Foster Son
Under the will the share of Christian
Cornelius, known as PEPPER, who has
adopted the name of Christian PEPPER jr.,
is one-twelfth and that of the other
heirs each eleVen-SiXtiethS.
No explanation except that contained
in the formal court motion made Mon
day by Attorney Laurie on behalf of the
plaintiffs has been made of the sudden
abandonment by the two sons and two
daughters of Christian PEPPER of their
attempt to break the will. Members of
the family and their attorneys decline
to interpret the significant language Of
the motion, admitting that Christian
Cornelius, known as Christian PEPPER,
has moral claim" to an interest in
the estate in consequence of relations
between him and Christian PEPPER who'll
ly different from what the children had
supposed.
The mouths of the attorneys, Joseph
Laurie and Judge Franklin Ferriss, are
sealed. They say the motion containing
the significant language is the final
word. When reminded of the lnterpre-
tation likely to be placed on the allusion
TO relations" and moral claim" and
that their silence may be construed as
assent to that Interpretation, they say
that they are not at liberty to add to or
take from the language of the motion.
IL Is known that the abandonment of
the case was not suggested or encour-
aged by the attorneys. They withdrew
trom the struggle with manifest reluc-
tahCe anu DISAPPOINTMENT They felt
tnal they had made a strong case and
the zest of the combat possessed them
The impression created by the line of
cross-eXamination pursued by the de-
tense was that there would be sensa-
tional developments when the defend
ants came to their case in chief
Attorney Smith, for the defense, saws
that IT was not the intention to under
take to establish any relationship be-
tween Christian PEPPER and the boy who
was taken into the family and raised
and treated as one Of the children. 1t
was not the purpose, he says. to try to
establish anything more than de f9cto
adoption.
When Christian PEPPER died he was
| n years old, having been born In 1926
Christian Cornelius, known as Peper."
was born In 1S45. Nothing was brought
out IN testlmony about his childhood,
but Attorney Laurie stated In his onen,
| ing address to the Jury that his narant