The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-13
NEW YORKER
WINS RACE
FOR $4,000
EXCITING RACE IS WON BY
YOUNG MAN AFTER A
GREAT EFFORT

! ST. Louis, July IA thrilling rae
from New York to ST. Louis. in whicl
the prize was the right of administer
ing a 100000 estate, ended in thu
] rebate clerks office at 2:40 o'clocl
this afternoon, when hatless
Lreathless young man rushed In, wav
ing above his head copy of the viii
o! Julius Steinwenuer. New Yorl
coffee importer. The document hac
been thrown TO him from the window
OF an incoming 24.hour train on the
elevated tracks at the foot of Chest
nut street.
A moment after the young man
Herbert Cameron. had placed the
copy of the will in the hands of Dep
uty Clerk Clarence Hunt, another
Youth, carrying like document, ran
into the court house and handed 1t
10 Harry Troll. public administrator
who was awaiting him outside the
probate court. A shouting crowd fol-
lowed at his heels.
On the per cent fee basis the
administrator fee will be $4,000. In
the attempt to win this fee Troll
realized that he would have to make
an extra effort. The Steinwender
heirs desired Charles Stoffregen,
life long business partner of Stein
wender, to be the administrator. The
matter was placed in the hands of
The Title Guaranty Trust company OF
New York and of Attorney Loomis G.
Johnson, of ST Louis.
Will Filled in New York Monday
Julius Steinwender died in New
ork, June 4, and Troll filed two
lays later as administrator of the
Missouri portion OF his estate, amount
ng to 100000 The law provides
hat the filing of a will revokes pre-.
'ious grants of administration. II
vas known that Steinwender had
eft will but its filing in New York
vas delayed by the absence of Alton
/. Parker one of the witnesses
When the win was filed in New
FORK Monday both Troll and Stof-
egen were at once notified by tele
raph. One copy of the will was
laced in the hands of Harold Swain,
I the Title Guaranty Trust company,
'ho left New York with it at 4 p.'
! Monday. on the New York Cen
'als Neutrality-suspicious. train. Another
Dpy. in the pocket of representa-
Troll, started west on the same
ain. Both sides foresaw a race in
I Louis and each made practically
he same arrangement-to toss the
ocument from the train at the foot
Chestnut street and to rush it to
m rAr hp ffy txsf .1xsl-
The scene at the foot of Chestnut
rect shortly before the arrival of
le train was exciting. Troll had
venty-five automobiles and seventy
We or eighty men in waiting. The
pposition had three machines and
ght men and boys. {,
Two forms leaned from the train
indow. and two papers, folded and
eighted. were thrown out. One. in,
,nded for the Stoffregen side was
lied by one of Trolls 'huskies" ,
I'd was rushed to an automobile. /;
he Stoffregen auto nearest to Trolls
ade start as if its occupant, too, ,
I'd copy of the will.
roll Machine Held UP
The machine succeeded in getting :
front of Trolls and blocking il for
minute while one of the Stoffregen
en- got the other copy. The char !
red taxicab into which the holder :
the document jumped reached the
'urt house door half minute ahead )
the Troll conveyance. and an in )
ant later Cameron was in the pro-
tie clerks office
The scene at the court house had
e whole building in turmoil. Fist
yhts added to the excitement. At
80 two young men rushed into the
st door of the probate clerks of
e. Both were hatless and one was
lshing the other as in a football
sh. The one in front had a paper
his hand. He waved it in the air
ID excitedly asked for the clerk.
le almost breathless young man ex-
aimed that he represented the Stoff-
gen interest. He thrust the paper
to Clerk Hunts hand Hunt ac-
pied the document for filing and r
amped ii as having been received
2:40 p. m just two minutes be-
re the Troll representatives ar
,ed.