The evening world., 1912-09-10
GAVE s4,50O,OOO
| LEGACY TWICE IN
! HIS TWO WILLS
Capt. John G. Martin, Coal
millionaire, Revoked Huge
81 Request TO Presbyterians.
= THEN WENT TO ASYLUM.
Adjudged Insane II Days After
= Giving Millions for Chris
Y tianity Among Negroes.
J, THEN WENT TO ASYLUM.

assaAses Of chs Presbyterian Church
81 ~ enxsoudy wondering to-day whether
hey viii get Capt. John c. Martins
Ss,Oeo.eee for Bible CLASSES or whether the
big ssnSs Will 70 TO teach Christianity
a p>eross They intend to hsht tho
ssocnd will, which deprives them Of the
Ammsuss legacy.
Can't. Martins once was at No.
broadway and ne lived at the Hotel
wos,sston. His second will was made
--,.Aug. 4 sast. and twelve days later ne
went 30 q anitarium for the second
sTsaams ~ mentally deranscd. He died In
SAs Riverdaie asylum last week. Both
VIA were offered for probate yesterday
n Arut will, dated March 10. 1905.
.U,ers than two years before he was ad-
-..s1ulgsd . iunstic. left $4,000 year to
- we, Mrs. Emfiie Doolittie Martin.
,seaeis Of $4,000 each TO his seven
.nsSrosasrs end sisters and to the National
-.. Womsn's Christian Temperance Union
aad shs residue. estimated at V.1oo,ooo.
- The Prssbyterian Church for a Bible
Trsining Department on the John C.
ss~t1n Foundation
Jsess 3. L'Amoreaux and Daniel Z
Wing of Graham q .LAmoreaux. were
named a. executors under this Will.
The second will Increases the requests
ia the sasteru to $4,000 each. which was
also the amount OF bequest made to the
New York Society for the Suppression OF
vlca. Then the remainder of the estate
10 left, not to the boards of the Prss-
Htsrian Church. but to the John C.
1nrtfu Fund for the Promotion Vt
Christian Education.
lGxGcUToRs UNDER SECOND
TWILL DIFFERENT FROM FIRST.
- Milton Alexander. ]. II. JefYeris and
~. II. and Henry b. Baumgardner.
eDfothsrs- in-iAw OF Martin. were named
1as executors. The Fidelity Trust Com
pany Of Philadelphia was made trustee
xCes the rsaduary estats.
q II b saiA that In making his second
.oussl CApt. Martin went to Col. John II
s0iareasee, . prominent attorney at Ports
nmouth. n. H.. end explained that his
wife was dead; that In her own will she
n<Asd left $4,000 to the w. c. T. u; thai
NJ wanted TO leave more to his sisters
sNat to make further provision for the
Martin fund.
This fund was created In 1905. and
vlwss an extension Of an organization
Established In 1853 with an endowment
yos &, 800 900. Its chief benehciaries beinS
the negroes OF the South. In WHOM
Capt. Martin had long been deeply In
Capt. Martin. who was born at Mil
isrstown, Pa. In is>6. amassed . forum,
.os elo.0oo.ooo In Pennsylvania coal ant
o {fimber lands He had been . mrs
lieutenant Of . Pennsylvania regiment
. the civil war when he was seven
teen. and was made captain for gal
lantry In lSsA In 1859 he began buyin'
timber lands near Portage. Pa. an'
whom the coal deposits came to be de
vsiepsd his wealth enormously In
creased.
~ Two years ago Capt. Martin began 4
AArbor . delusion that his wife wa
dead. When Mrs. Martin attempted I
oAnooths him he became Diseased with
boaisf that she was an impostor VIII
! had killed his real wife. Then he be
nan to complain that Gov. Fort Of Nes
Jersey was annoying him. and his com
mitment to the Totowa Sanitartum fol
lowed He left there after some months
going to Portsmouth. and from tina
eAHims on his health seemed vigorous