The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-15
INTERESTING FIGHT
OVER AN ESTATE
adIy-TangIed Affairs of John
Caine, Deceased, Are Now
Being Aired.
VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
FROM $4,000 TO 10000
Establishment of Fact of Birth
of Daughter Important Fac
tor in Case.

81 don It know positively that John
Caine was my father, but 1 have every
reason TO believe that he was.'
This was the testimony of Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Bulkley of Ogden in the pre-
lminary hearing in Judge Lewls's d.
vision of the Third district court Mon
day on the petition Of the four English
heirs OF John Cainc, Manxman and
cousin Of the novelist. Hall Cainc, who
died at Long Beach, Cal, September s,
1907, profcsscdly unmarried, leaving
property in Utah and California valued
Mt from $4,000 to 100000, undisposed
of, for the revocation Of letters of adj
ministration to the Salt Lake Security
4 Trust company
Mrs Bulkley, with the four English
heirs, appears as claimant for part
OF the Caine estate. The petitioners
for the revocation of letters of admin"
istration of the Salt Lake Security &
Trust company are: Philip Calnc OF
Durham county, England; Thomas
Calne, Cleator Moor, Cumberland coun-
ty. England: Elizabeth Cartmell. Fleet
wood, Lancashire, England, and Ruth
Williamson, Cleator Moor. Cumberland
county The grounds on which the pc
IiiIOn IL n1Scu arc Indt tDc ft'uiiLS "a
Trust company. being n debtor instead
of u creditor of the estate, is adversely
interested in the estate. The Security
d Trust company was made administra-
tor September 90, 1907,
Mrs Bulklcy said she could not be
sure where Game married her mother.
but thought IT was in Whltehavcn, Eng
land. She was born in Leadville, Col,
in 1888. she testified She learned moth
nf .ha 1iN,rpr ehn
MP, she said, and this from Gaines own
lips, iu Ogden. Her mother, now Mrs.
Anna Margaret Seelig, of Ogden, told
her nothing of it until after she learned
il from Game. The divorce, she
thought, was obtained in Colorado.
Recollections Are Hazy.
Mrs. Bulkley's early recollcctions of
Caine naturally are somewhat hazy, she
said. The first distinct recollection she
has OF him goes back to a time when
she, presumably with her. mother and
possibly other relatives, visited him in
iail The last time she saw Caine was
about six years ago
On the latter date she had an en-
gagement with Cainc to meet him at
the home of her halfsister. Mrs. Har-
riet Berry, in Ogden, but didn' t keep
the engagement, she testified. The pur-
pose of the meeting was not brought out.
tHtn ~tHdL llne taIne, however, TO
her own personal knowledge, transacted
business with the Salt Lake Security &
Trust company.
Mrs. Bnlkley said she had been told
that there was another child born to
Caine and her mother at Leadvile,
Colo, her birthplace. From Leadville
Caine and the woman. with the child
went to Butte. it has been told but
Mrs. Bulkley did not go into this in
cc,. hal
revocation of the letters OF administers
tlon Will attempt 10 show, however, ii
is understood. that Mrs. Bulkley. while
she is Mrs. Secig's daughter, is not
Gaines child. The divorce is said TO
have been obtained at Butte, Mont. but
the English heirs Will contend that the
records there show no such n divorce,
neither do the birth records at Lead.
Nillc. Colo. show Mrs Bulkley's birth
there, they will also set forth.
McGurrin OH Stand.
Frank Z. McC irriu, representing the
Security & Trust company in the ad
miuistraton matter, was another wit
ness III behalf of the trust company.
and testified that his first business re-
lations with Cainc began about 1896,
Mr.. McGurrin classcd Caine as reticent
and eccentric. and a man with no init
mates. Cainc told him that he was
born on the Isle of Man. that his father
treated him harshly and that he left
home early. If Caiue ever represented
himself to Mr., McGurrin as having
been married and a father Mr.. McGur.
rim did not say so.
Mrs. Charles Lindlcv identified
Gaines picture as that of a man by
that name who lodged III her boarding
house al Park City almost twenty years
ago, aud also picture OF Mrs Scclg
,,E -l,., l..
place frequently and remained with
Calue fer. few days at time, pass
ing his wife. Another picture of
Mrs. Bulkley as a child fvc or six
years old. Mrs. Lindlcv also identified
aS bearing likeness to a little girl
Mrs. Seclig brought with her when She
visited Caine at her place. This child.
with another a few years older, ad.
dressed Game as papa, Mrs. Lindlcy
testified.
The testimony of Mrs. Bulklcv was
taken now for the reason that she de
sires 10 90 east for several weeks The
further hcari:g of the case was set for
September Is.
uch-Married Woman.
Mrs. Seelig is a much married won.
an, having been married three times
Her first husband was Martin Tod
hunter. who died in the work.
ubuc' ch ~ utltu1Nfu. flIT SttONu nus
band was Caine, Mrs BulkIey is claim
ing. aud her third husband Scelig, Of
Ogden. Mrs. Bulklcy has been married
twice herself.
Tho English heirs are not attacking
The Security & Trust company as ad-
ministrator through any especial ami
mostly to that concern, it is said, the
main ground being that this firm was
and is indebted 10 the estate. The Sc
curity & Trust company, which had
been the trusted business adviser of
Cnne for years, Immediately upon his
death inserted an advertisements for in.
formation as to Cainc's relatives in all
tie newspapers, which brought claim
ants from all parts of the country. The
notice ran as follows:
Information as 10 relatives of John
Caine, formerly Of this city and Og-
den, who recently died in California.
Said John Caiue has valuable securities
In the possession of this company, and
The information is desired in order that
his relatives may get tho benefit of
same. Salt Lake Security g. Trust Co. -
he .aIe eA4p tI,.,,