The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-14
|HAWLEYSWARD
GETS FORTUNE
Heirs Are Reported to Have
Agreed on Settlement
RECEIVED $4,000 A YEAR
Besides That Amount, She Receives Two
Costly Houses from Estate of Edwin
Hawley, the Railroad
Magnate.
RECEIVED $4,000 A YEAR

New York, March l4.5Actng in ac-
cordance with letter written BY Edwin
Hawley, the railroad magnate, before his
! death, his heirs have decided to his house
keeper Emma Sturges. known also as
Margaret Cameron, his town house at
~ East SiXtieth street, and Effingham
Towers, his fine country place at Baby.
Ion, /. l., besides settling on her an
income of $4,000 year for the rest
OF her life, these provisions not to be
nullified by her marriage in the future.
The finaneier died intestate, but be.
fore his death he wrote a letter to his
heirs and had it witnessed by John Will
liams, his heard gardener. and Henry
Peterson, his chauffeur, in which he re-
quested those who would divide his prop
erty to make good provision for Miss
Sturges, of whom he was very fond and
whom he sometimes introduced as his
niece. The settlement is made exactly
as suggested in this letter, the heirs
giving implicit obedience to Mr.. Haw.
ley's wishes.
The matter was arranged by John y.
Starchfield on the part OF the heirs and
former Judge Edward w Hatch of the
firm Of Parker. Hatch & Sheehan on
the part of Miss Sturges.
Since Mr.. Hawley's death. Miss Stur-
ges has been living in the town house,
lust off Fifth avenue, and several OF the
heirs have also stayed there at times
in the last few weeks She is now i'll,
having been Frustrated by Mr.. Hawley's
death and the accompanying notoriety
into which she was brought, and Mrs
Walter s. Craudell and Mrs. Seymour
one of the dead railroad mans sisters.
have been helping to nurse her Lawyer
Starehfieh said yesterday that all the
heirs are in accord and are friendly to
Miss Sturges.
"The way Mr.. Hawley first came to
take an interest in Miss Sturges was
through the girls mother who was an
old school friend OF Mr. Hawley in Chat
ham," said Mr.. Starchfeld yesterday
"The mother married a ieweler Of Home
stead. n. T.. where Miss Sturges was
born She is named after her mother.
"'rhe Sturges family was broken up,
and Mrs. Sturges appealed to Mr. Haw
ley to look after her daughter. The girl !
was then L. years old, and Mr. Hawlev
saw that she obtained good education, |
Before that time she had been in public !
institution in New Jersey.
when she was 20 years old, she took /
up her permanent residence with Mr.. !
Hawley, looking after his homes in this
city aud in Babylon, as his financial /
operations rpevented him from spending |
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close friends and near relatives all knew /
her and respected and trusted her.
Miss Sturges changed her name TO
Margaret Cameron. in order to avoid /
the friends Of her girlhood who she
thought might annoy her If they knew
of her position Her mother died sew
aral years ago, and her father il be-
Iieyed to be dead She has married /
sister who lives in the Bronx with her
husband
Mr. Hawley never married He was
known in Wall street as one of the cold
sst tinanciers and was almost inap-
to callers. There have been
stories Of an early disappointing love
affair in his life.
Miss Sturges was not in the fore
ground at Babylon. She was seldom
,een at the financier's dinners to his
business associates She was often seen
lorsebackriding about the countryside
With Mr. Hawley. however,
II was not known until some time
ifter Mr.. Hawley's death that he had
eft no will When this fact was ascer-
aimed. Mr. Iiawley having made one
viii and destroyed it and failed to exc
ute another will, a search was made
or his relatives and his nephew. Fred
rick Campbell was found to be working
Is bookkeeper for a firm of North
liver stevedores at $50 week. He had
,een discarded by the railroad man after
violent quarrel. because he insisted on
marrying woman Western Union OPP
rator in the Hawley offices. He mar.
led her and they are now worth be.
ween 100000 and $2,5000o0,