Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-13

would do Ii. So I have drawn up a
note of $4,000 which I think is a small
compensation enough for the happiness
you have and are giving me. and ! think
Mr. Ross who Is to settle my estate. Will
Day the note out of the first money
collected out Of my estate, for II Is my
wish that he should do so. and 1t would
be foolish for them to litigate the note.
for when all the circumstances are ex-
planned there IL not a judge or court
in the United States but what would
give you a judgment for the value OF the
note, and they would have to pay the
cost.
Truly yours.
Letters From DR.. Hurd.
Answering the charge in the bill that
while persuading Mr.. Hurd to give heI
money she was poisoning the old
mans mind against his grandson, DR.
Hurd, Mrs. Cramer offers to the court
q number of letters from DR.. Hurd and
his wife, tending to show that the best
Of feeling existed between the CORE
spondents. and that the doctor was
continually importuning her to use her
good graces with the grandfather for
the more prompt remittance OF an an
nual allowance Of $1,000 made by him
to DR.. Hurd. He also thanks her for
Mrs. Cramer tells the court she has
no memorandum Of the dates and
amounts of tile various gifts, but De-
lieves the following statement accu-
rate:
May, 1904, $4,000; April, 1906, $4,000;
September, 1905. 5000 and May. 1909.
$4,000. making a total Of $4,000.
She denies the gifts reached $4,000,
and declares untrue the statement they
were induced in any way by fraudu-
was wholly within the right Of Fenton
j. Hurd to make her gifts of money
and that DR.. Hurd has no legal right
to question the giving.
Gifts Not Extraordinary.
Under the conditions surrounding the
elder Hurd. she says, il was not only not
extraordinary that he should have select
I'd her as the object Of his solicitude and
care. but 1t would have been extraord-
mary II he had not done SO. or II he had
not felt an ardent desire to provide for
her needs and to guard her future against
adversity.
Mrs. Cramer denies that Fenton j.
Hurd Is incapable of MANAGING his affairs
or that he ever was incapable while living
IT her home. Being thus legally compe-
tent. she says. and the gifts having been
fully completed. II Is not within the legal
right of DIR. Hurd. either AZ grandson or
conservator. to reclaim the money.
All gifts made prior to June q. 1907,
Of limitations. and she asks the protec-
ton Of the statute as though IL had been
formally pleaded. She also asks that the
court declare the whole matter outside
the Jurisdiction Of equity on the theory
that II DR.. Hurd has any rights in the
premises the law courts furnish an ade-
Quate remedy.
In Role Of Accuser.
Dropping the role Of respondent. Mira.
Cramer proceeds to make counter charges
OF decoying the elderly man from this
city and imposing on the Connecticut
court. for the alleged purpose Of secur-
Ing the possession of Mr.. Hurd with ul-
terror designs on his remaining wealth.
She submits to the court q letter from
DR.. Hurd dated March IL. 1910, in which
he says: grandfather got tired of the
hospital and wanted to go back to your
apartment, but i told him you were In
New York and your sons wife could not
take care of him. and as he was almost
himself again he came on home with me.
He ID strong enough to walk OF train
and get up until we made him go to
bed, and i hope to keep him with us, so
please forward his mail here to Green
wich, Conn"
Mrs. Cramer charges that Mr.. Hurd.s 8
relatives are impatient for his death
and eager to obtain for themselves con-
Tol of his property during his lifetime. -
She declares the elder Hurd was not only
afraid Of his son. but was SO angered
AZ him that II was with difficulty she
could persuade him to visit the son and
such visits ''he was eager to get back
TO Washington and away from them
She says Mr.. Hurd repeatedly stated
that his son had not treated him proper
~ and that having given the son 500
lcres OF ground near Whallensburg, n.
T.. and having one time bought him q
fully equipped drugstore. the son need
nave no further expectations.
Not Present in Court.
As TO the court proceedings in Green
wich. Mrs. Cramer says a transcript OF
the record shows that the elderly man
was not present in court when the order
was signed. II shows that the allegation
was made that Mr.. Hurd was q resident
ef Greenwich when she declares he had
pnly visited his grandson there on four
occasions. when the visits were only of
two weeks duration.
Mrs Cramer asks the court to remove
the injunction against her bank account,
declaring that no portion of the gifts
from Mr.. Hurd is therein Incorporated.
but the account contains only her savings
from ner salary ana the proceeds from a
commenting business which she formerly
conducted.
No attempt Is made by the answer to
lake the court into confidence as to the
disposition of the $4,000 admitted to
have been received. Mrs Cramer con-
tents herself with saying II Is not in the
Faults OF the Washington Loan and Trus,
Company. nor in a safe deposit box rent
ID from that company. As to the safety
BOX. she says DR.. Hurd has been mis-
Informed. as she has no such receptacle
for valuable papers.
After hearing the answer Justice star
lord dissolved the restraining order which
prevented Mrs. Cramer from drawing Oh
her bank account. The order Of the cour
Toes not dispose Of the merits Of tn
controversy. and DIR. Hurd will now Al
replication or answer to the state
nents made by Mrs. Cramer. Proof vii
hen be taken before the case comes OF
!or final hearing.