Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-02-07
!. LETTER From :. e p pE s
Los Angeles. Cali
II Jan, 325. 1912.

ST got back to my room iittle
early tonight and some way feat q
little homesck and physically lit.
re tired but s,:ill wishing I + had
same old friend to chat with and
having no letters to answer and re
Meeting over the question who best
would I like to chat with, Fred Dur.
eyy's face first appeared. Now ]
DOM believe need make any apol-
ogy for this intrusion. while + Is
true l have quite q number ot old
friends that I knew back home years
ago, still some way there's . strong
desire to see and chat With friends
back home, in short a letter post
marked Manchester is most web
come visitor. \, 4: 3.s s83 I .l9t
& Don't remember that ever talked
with you abort the business that
Brought me over here. Well briefly
here 1t is. One H. B. Gleason, for
merry OF Delhi, IS years or more ago,
cane west and Specializing tn mine
.huntin struck q. lode in Arizona.
Sold out and cleaned UP just q $10O,s
900. Came here and built 8 very
zine reside nce, estimated worth $780,
900. In 1906 his wife died and Gea-
son became Respondent to a degree
bordering on insanity and after few
months commenced to drink and fol-
.owei i. UP with SUCH iduity that
in a few months he was not only
f..,-unk all the time but was famn-.
tar figure in every house of bad re-
pute in the city and finally married
one. at the inmates, q rather fine
cooking woman, % years Old hut q
most accomplis hed adventures, had
been twice married before she met
Gleason and once since and divorced:
she kept him doped with WHISKY ~
the time and I'M a little over two
years forced him to make WV giv-
irg her a,t llfs property and Ia less
than so days after the executions q
the will, she buried him n the
cemetery by the side Of his first
wife. Well,I came oyere here lat
June, looked the matter up and com
menced suit to break the viii. Game
back in December and got trial
with sufficient evidence 70 break
dozen wills. blus. In giving Instructions
to the jury. the Judge G weak sis-
ter) struck out all our material evil
dence. Az a sample of the evidence
to sustain our allegation Of ,ndhe In,
fluence, the man that drew the VII
testified that SOON after the signing
Gleason went out Of the office and
was gone 10 Or 10 minutes, when he
returned and fell into a chair
nervous and physical wreck and e1-
claimed, 'h,--." s The notary asked !
What Is Gleason Z" why h. that
paper, that will l had 70 make II
as she wanted It or h wouH pop
over there Why over where Glea.
son?'' why over home, my vile.
hat house isn't big enough for iis
.wo unless made the will as' she
wanted it,, why Gleason who did
1ou marry anyhow" il
Know, Invent down town and got
Trunk and got married. d. u
know who she is, Z and more to the
,ame import. But the judge ruled
hat by reason OF the fact that Glea-
'on Left the office for the space OF
o or Is minutes, such declarations |
we're taken from the class termed
n the books as part OF the res jeata
part OF the same thing) and that It
hou.d mot be taken Into considera-
ion by the Jury. Still the Jury
ought over It for hours and flnally
out Of the IL found for the will.
Here s jurymen cam find vedictl
here is no case In the books that
oes anywhere near such holding and
o we are preparing q motion for
lew trial. Ann very much in hopes
0 get a new trial and il 1t was be-
ore any other OF the ~ Judges hold
.lg court here, we should feel quite
ure. You see Fred its matter q
reat interest in financial point
( view, for IL we win we get about
hirty thousand dollars, probably CON
iderably more as we have discover
d several Thousand dollars that have
ever been reported. I
Now Fred when started out
al no intention OF infztcting SO long
story but sitting here alone took
o account of time and kept right
long just as If you were here tank
lg with me about the matter.
Have received number Of letteD