, 1908-04-22
MARRIED IN
THIS CITY
LEGAL TANGLE OVER ESTATE OF
FORMER RESIDENT AND LAND
OWNER OF LARAMIE.
lauveI A. May Will Take His Parent
age Into the Courts of Salt Lake
City In Effort to Prevent Breaking
Of Mothers Last Wiil-Laramie
Lots on Thornburgh street.

Lauvel A. May, former yardmaster
for the Denver and Rio Grande Rail.
road company at Pueblo, Colo, later in
he employ of the company in this
city and now a wealthy stockman OF
Pueblo, proposes to go into the third
district court and establish the fact
that he is the illegitimate son of the
late Mrs. Carrie I. Eslinger, wife OF
John N. Eslinger, for years one of the
best known police officers in Salt Lake
City. says the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr.,
May proposes to take this step in or,
der to prevent Albert lie Roy Riddle
of Cleveland, Ohio, a brother of Mrs
Eslinger, from breaking her will.
One of Many TapeIes.
This is only n of the tangles in
which the estate of Mrs. Eslinger is
found, all because of a will made by
her, without the knowledge of her hus,
band.
Mrs. Eslinger died in this city, No.
vember 30, 1907. About four years pri.
or to her death she and her husband
talked over their property matters and
each made a will satisfactory to the
other. In this will, Mrs. Eslinger left
her entire estate, valued now at about
100000, to her husband, with the ex-
ception that she provided that her
husband, If he felt able, was to give
her brother, Albert LIE Roy Riddle of
Cleveland, Ohio, the sum of $500.
Makes Second Will.
Upon the day of Mrs. Eslinger's flu.
neral in this city, w. A. Holman went
to Mr.. Eslinger and informed him that
Mrs. Eslinger's last will and tesla
ment was in his possession. Later the
instrument was filed in the probate
division Of the third district court. By
the provision of this will Mrs. Eslinger
left all her real estate in this city TO
her husband and Lauvel A. May but
made requests, consisting
of jewelry, pictures and s~ilverware, to
friends and relatives. Money beauests
aggregating $500 were also made and
it was provided that Mr.. Eslinger and
May should pay the cash requests.
Left Laramie Realty,
In this will, which was executed
June %, 1907, at the residence of w.
A. Holman, Mrs. Eslinger left certain
real estate in Laramie, Wyo., to her
brother, Albert lie Roy Riddle. The
month following, however, without ad-
vising her husband that she had made
this will and left the Laramie realty
to her brother. Mrs. Eslinger requested
Mr.. Eslinger to sell the property. He
did so, receiving $500 for it.
This explains why Mr.. Riddle fled
a contest against the will Immediately
after it was filed for probate. OF
course, as the property, which had
willed to him, had been sold, he
could get nothing from the will, but in
the event that the will could be
broken, he would come in as next Of
kin to Mrs. Eslinger and inherit a por-
ton of the estate.
. May a Reputed Cousin.
1t was here that Lauvel A. May got
into the case. May vas always sup
posed by MI. Eslinger to be a cousin
of Mrs. Eslinger. In fact, Mr.. Eslinger
says that his wife always told him
that May vas her cousin. May came
to Salt Lake in July, 1906, to act as
for the Denver and Rio
Grande and made his home with the
When MI. Eslinger first
met him he was introduced as the
cousin of Mrs. Eslinger and he says
he never heard an intimation to the
contrary until he learned recently that
May declared himself to be the ille-
Ultimate son of Mrs. Eslinger. Mr..
Eslinger also says that his wife told
him shortly before her death that May
had ~endeavored to prevail upon her to
leave her husband.
Marriage Occurred Here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eslinger were married
at Laramie, Wyo., about nineteen
years ago and there was a tinge of ro-
nance in their love affair. 1t was in
1888 that Mrs. Eslinger, who was then
the widow of a man named Garry, went
to Laramie to reside with an uncle,
who owned a ranch neal the town.
While absent from the ranch on a
visit, two of her trunks were broken
open and a number of handsome
dresses and other costly adjuncts to a
woman's wardrobe were stolen. The
woman who stole the articles fed to
Laramie and there disposed of a great
many of the things. At this time Mr.,
Eslinger was a police office at Laramie
and Mrs. Garry secured his co-opera-
ton in securing a return of the stolen
articles. Practically everything was
recovered and later Mr.. Eslinger and
Mrs. Garry were married.
Claimed Children Were Dead.
At the time of the marriage Mr.. Es-
linger was informed by his wife that
she had two children, as the result
of her former marriage, but that both
children were dead. Later Mr.. and
Mrs. Eslinger came to Salt Lake, after
which Eslinger served upon the police