The evening world., 1911-02-09
ECKERT INRAGED
BY HINT TO LET
SONS SHARE ALIKE
Stormed, Says Secretary Who
Drew Memorandum, and
Tried 70 Give Tom More.

~ 80 Wv A'lN'FA VI 'hfIH y = ~
crt's will disposing OF a 100000 estate
was resumed before Surrog ite Cohalan
to-day, DE Lanccy Nicoll continued his
REORGANIZATION OF the old Generals
confidential secretary. Il. q. Page jr..
and sought to show thar the witness
had not even advises his employer when
In his ninetieth year. he began planning
his will.
Page declared that he had only once
offered a suggestion to Gen. Eckert on
the testamentlry division of his mill
ions. lie had suggested that he call
his sons in conference. Gen. Eckert
lew into a passion. he testified.
Denied Sons equal Shares.
II never attempted a suggestion
again said Page. "When the General
next brought up the subject he said he
wished to divide his property betw cen
his sons. lie asked me to prepare a
memorandum. "
In the memorandum / gavc the sons
almost equal shares. When / showed
this 10 Gen. Eckert. he said: That Is
not my intention at all. ! do not mean
TO divide my property in anything like
equal shares"
THIS testimony was offered to Offset
the evidence of two memoranda pre-
pared by Page at the behest of Gen.
Eckert. and in which J. Clendenln
Eckert got about FIVE times as mush
as his portion $4,000 casn ana a life
interest in 100000 under the will
made two months before the Gene
40 In.,l k - -.
most of his writing for the General
was under dictation, the will memo
randa were a sort of wildcat produc-
ton.
80 anxious. said Page. was the Cen
eral to give almost his entire estate 10
his younger son, r. r. Eckert jr., that
last summer he employed New Jersey
lawyers TO ascertain IL he could no
leave Tom all the property left to him
by his second wife, the stepmother o.
his two sons.
The will OF John Stewart Kennedy
suggested to Gen. Eckert that 1t would
be . good thing to put u mo contest
clause in his Will.
The General read Mr.. Kennedy's
will very carefully" testified Mr.. Page.
He read the no contest clause; he
read II over several times and then
hNf ~ ~ 'hls ~ 'fA aIit ~ ~
put one like 1t In his Will"
BY reason OF this clause. II Clendenin
Eckert fails to break his fathers wal
he loses every dollar bequeathed to him,
About Aug. | Gen, Eckert ordered
PAGE to get all the memoranda on ais
will. He read all these papers carefully
and put them away.
Suggested s. 5000 Cash.
Early in August" testified PAGE, 18th,
General told me that he had decided I,
place In trust the entire legacy OF Glen
denim. as under his sons control II woul,
very quickly be disslpltod. told hin
he ought to give Clendenin n large sun
IN cash. AS he Was greatly embarrasse,
financially
How much did YOU suggest" askc,
Mr., Nicoll, dramatically.
Two hundred thousand dollars!" eX
claimed the Witness In as loud a vote
as he seemed capable OF.
And what did the General ay?" In
quirel the lawyer,
He replied" said the witness. "tha
he would do nothing Of the kind. A
first he said he would not leave Glen
denim "A cent in cash, but at last h
agreed 20 cave him $50, 900 outright
lie said he wished to make me sol
trustee. / declined. but consented to aC
as executor.
"On Aug, L. he told me to cut Glen
DENNIS name out Of the viii as eX
ccutor. and TO write In my name an
. that Of the Central Trust Company
Thea he told me to M In 100000 ia
Clendeuin's trust fund, | said he ougt
70 have a much larger sum. The Ger
) eral Haired up and said,
Il VIII not DO H.. | want him TO live
more modest NE and attend 20 bus
ness, | want hin TO stop MS yach:iil
and live more simply
Page said tho General alsr had o.
4 dcrcd the legacy to his hro'h,r. Villa
n. Eckort, ou' from sl0,0r TO $3.50, /
/, had been augcred by letters from h
, brothers. sons, in which they said tn,
. Thought ne ought 10 support their fathe
Il want to leave him enough to su
: port linn in his d"clini1= years, hut n
enough for him ia leave anything to h
D.. children" ra-n quoted his employer.
p Before tho General death Page r
, turned the Nil Ia q box held, In lis ~
% nnWe, so ne could get It In event OF 4
testatar's death.
p" Three days after tho win was ma
according to Mr., Page. Gen. Ecker