The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25
Different Stories About the Es-
tate Left by Relative of
Famous Novelist.
MRS. ELIZABETH BULKLEY
APPEARS AS A CLAIMANT
Story of Mrs. Seelig of Ogden
Does Not Greatly Clarity
the Situation.

and second cousin of the novelist, Hall
came, who died at Los Angeles Sep
tember 8, 1907, professedly unmarried,
leaving property in Utah and California
valued at $4,000, and there is equally
as strong Il tangle in the estate. Now
that Caine is dead, claimants to the
estate have sprung up from many quar-
tcrs Of the world
The Associated Press dispatches this
(Sunday) morning are carrying the
| statement Of Mrs. A. NJ Seelig Of Og-
den to the effect that the Los Angeles
| dispatch Of Saturday morning carrying
| the inference that she was the widow
and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Bulkloy of the same place the child of
Game, was erroneous, but Mrs Bulk
Icy, IN the answer of the Salt Lake
| Security and Trust company to the pc
tltion of two English nieces and two
English nephcws of Caine that letters
OF administration granted the Salt Lake
Security and Trust company be revoked !,
| is interpleaded as the sole child and
heir OF tho dead man.
Story of Mrs. seclig.
Here is the story of Mrs. Seelig s
| early life, as told to q prominent Salt
Lake attorney but which, it is under
| stood, she DOW rcpudiates in large part,
Her maiden name was Anna Margaret
Lee. In 1872 she was married to Mar
| tin Todhunter, who died in the work
| house at Whitehaven IN 1879. In DC
tober of 1880 she became the wife Of
Caine at Whitehaven, and in 1852 they
came to Leadville, Col, where Two chill
dren were born, both by Cainc, the
| first OF which died, the second, now
| living, being Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Bulkley. She and Caine were divorced
at Butte in 1855 and later on she be-
camo Mrs. Seelig of this city.
This story, told TO an attorney In this
city November 80, 1907, less than two
months after Caine s death, Mrs. See
lig has absolutely repudiated, it is un.
| derstood. At any rate, there is no rec
ord Of the alleged marriage Of Caine
and Mrs. Todhunter at Whitehaven,
neither is there any record of the birth
of Mrs. Bulkley at Leadville, Col. Like
wise, 1t is claimed, there is no record
of the divorce at Butte, but it has
inn or lodging place Mrs. Seelig con
| Quoted in England about 1878 and
1879
The petitioners for the revocation of
letters of administration to the Salt
Lake Security and Trust company are
Philip Caine Of Durham county,
Thomas Caine. Cleator Moor, Cumber
land county; Elizabeth Cartmell. Fleet
wood, Lancashire and Ruth William
sou, Cleator Moor, Cumberland county,
England. Letters were issued to the
Security and Trust company here Sep
tcmbcr 2S, 1907.
Application of Heirs.
They set out that letters of admin
80 icc,,oI -, ttn Suli | a q
Security and Trust company before they
had an opportunity 10 apply for letters
and that this company Is interested ad-
versely to them in the estate, being a
debtor instead of a creditor, and ask
that the Utah Savings and Trust com
pany be substituted.
Section 7 OF their petition sets out
that they have no definite informa
tion on the subject, but that they are
informed aud believe that Caino left
other property, consisting of mining in
tercsts, than that shown In the petition
of tho Salt Lake Security and Trust
company for administration letters,
which is part of the estate, and If so
it ought to be administered on the same
as the other property.
To this the Salt Lake Security and
Trust company has answered setting up
that it was the trusted business friend
death it became the duty of the COM
pany to try to find the heirs and settle
up the estate. Further, 1T is set out,
Mary Elizabeth Bulkley Of Ogden is
the sole child and heir of the estate,
that she has ratified and confirmed the
appointment of the company ss admin
istrator and that the English heirs
have no legal interest in and to the
property.
The hearing on the petition of the
English heirs for the revocation Of let
ters of administration is set for June,
In the meantime the Salt Lake Secur-
ity and Trust company is handling the
estate, which, according to the petition,
amounts to only about $4,000, in bonds
and mortgages.
DR.. Lewis A. Pierce Of Long Branch,
Cal, was the physician who testified
before the commission at Los Angeles
that "John Caine told me that he had.
never married. and all of his business
was represented In Il bundle of papers.
He said the address of his agent was
there. -
What Mrs Seelig Says.
Following is the Associated Press dis
patch from Ogden, carrying Mrs. See
hg's statement:
OGDEN, Utah, April 24-According to
Los Angeles dispatches, Mrs. Seelig and
her daughter were named as claimants
to portion of the estate of John Caine,
to which Philip Caine, the alleged peddler
of Denver, was also an heir. In the dis
patch 1t was inferred that although John
Caine stated upon his deathbed that he
was unmarried. the Ogdenites claimed 10
be his wife and daughter, This develops,
statement. as Mrs, Seeig has never
claimed to have been other than the wife
of Jude Charles Caine. a brother OF the
deceased man.. Some years ago. after the
death OF her husband, she married Mr.
Seelig. a well-known resident OF Ogden.
Neither Mrs. Seelig nor her daughter is
making any claim whatever 10 a share
OF the estate OF their relative, and they
state that they feel deeply the injustice
OF the misstatements. As legal heirs to
the property involved, they will be pleased
to accept anything which is proved TO be
rightfully theirs, but until the estate is
to be regularly probated, no claim Will be
made
Principal Heir.
The principal heir to the John Calne |
estate Is brother OF the deceased. Reu- |
ben Caine. who now lives at Chehalis, |
Wash, and is a well-to- do business man |
The latter has communicated with his |