Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-10-09
RALPH EATON is ONE OF MANY
CLAIMANTS FOR PORTION OF
CHICAGO MlLLIoNAiRE's Es.
TATE OF ss,oonooo.
ADVANCED MONEY
FOR EDUCATION
WILLIAM M'cLlNTocK WAS HALF
BROTHER OF LOCAL RESIDENT
WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE PAID
FOR SCHOOLING 40 YEARS AGO.

VIII an Ottumwan obtain the GUS
fody of the child-millionaire William
Nelson McClintock and incidentally a
share of the estate of William Nc
Cl1ntock, the millionaire real estate
man Of Chicago2 The Chicagoan was
killed in an automobile accident two
years ago and left his estate to his
wife, who died last June leaving her
SIX year old son. 1t is the will of Mrs
.McCHntock that is now exciting rela-
fiVes and others. Ralph Eaton, 305
Lincoln avenue, a well known carpen-
Ter and a half-brother of the late Will
liam McClintook, has entered the fight
for a share of the $3,00O,000 estate,
and bases his grounds for such be-
cause of advancing money to educate
McClintock and start him in business.
MIR. Eaton has obtained the services
OF competent legal advisers and is
zahaking an effort to recover his share.
He claims to have lost trace of the
half-brother, McCIintock, some forty
years ago, and did not know what
had become OF him until reading scf
his death in an automobile accident
two years ago. A six-year-old son.
William Nelson McClintock, is the on
~ child and those claiming share of
the money are likewise seeking GUS
tody of the boy. The matter was
given an airing in the probate court
In Chicago yesterday before Judge
Cutting.
Wants Custody of Child.
The first chapter of the legal fight
which is said to be ION the verge OF
breaking, was revealed when Attorney
a. F. Reichmann Of Kenilworth asked
the court that absolute custody be
given him of 6-year-old William Mel.
son McClintock, to whom was be-
Queathed fortune estimated in the
neighborhood of $3,000,000 at the
death Of his mother June 7 last
Mr.. Reichmann and Mrs. Julia NJ
Sheppard were made co-guardians of
the boy in the will Of Mrs. McClin.
took. The estate was left in the care
of the Northern Trust company bank.
MIR. Reichmann, it Is understood, was
a lifelong friend and the legal adviser
of Mr.. McClintock.
Is Half Brother
Further hearing of the Reichmann
petition was deferred until November
4. Meanwhile it became known that
on of Ottumwa would probably appear
and request that Mr.. Eaton be appoint
ed guardian of the boy. Failing in
that claim for money alleged tc
have been advanced by Mr.. Eaton in
the education Of McClintock would
probably be made on the estate and
Hhe will itself might be made the oh
bjeot of a vigorous attack. Mr. Eaton
asserts that he has claim of $4,000
against the estate.
Agreed to Care for Mother.
The story is Il long one and goes
back over many years when both Eat
on and McClintock were boys on al
iowa farm near Maquoketa. The two
boys came with their family from New
York state about the close of the sos
and worked their farm together unit
McClintock, eyfncing a desire to go te
college, was furnished the money Il
do so by Eaton, his half brother. He
was sent to school," says Eaton, "fol
three years and promised to pay me
for the money advanced for his edu
cation. He would not give me note
80 we arbitrated the matter by Nc
Clintock promising to provide for our
mother. This he failed to do Late1
ne got away with quantity of stocl
From my farm and sold it, going to the
vicinity of LIE Mars. He also made
away with some land of my mother s
ln all he cost me some $4,000. Thi!
was the last heard of him until read
ing of his death two years ago.
Attorney Reichnann is said to have
known him in lie Mars and is. recalled
by Mr.. Eaton as having been frient
of McClintock before the latter left L,
Mars.
Attorney Reichmann is quoted by
Chicago paper as saying that he knew
McCiintock had half brother in low;
named Eaton, but questioned the vo
iidity of the claim against the estate
Before Judge Cutting Attorney Reich
mann attempted to show that prope
accounting has not been made by Mrs
Sheppard for the funds spent.