The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-23
|ASTOR ESTATE
| IS SUBJECT OF
| MUCH GOSSIP
New viii Believed to Have
Been Drawn Up Subsequent
4 to Marriage of the Col
onel to Miss Force.
WILL BE PROBATED
WHEN IT IS PROPER
Society Interested in Knowing
Whether Provision Has Been
Made for the PoSthumouS
Child Soon TO Arrive.
" international News Service.


n FEW YORK. April 25.-Despie re-
IN ports 10 tho contrary IL was
IN learned today upon undenia Bile
y v authority that Colonel John Jacob
Astor left a Will.
This will Is believed TO have been
|drawn up subsequent TO Colonel hstor's
marriage 10 Miss Madeleine Talmase
Torcc last September In Newport. When
he setiled s6.0oo,Ooo upon his fiancee 81
few days before tho marriage. Colonel
|Astor told his attorney. Lewis Cass Led
Yard, and former Supreme Court Justice
Henry 4. Gldcrslcevc. representing the
Force family. that he desired to enter
Into further agreement to make addi-
'fionaI provision FOR Miss Force.
The will. IL Is learned. at present re-
poses in the snfe OF the law firm of Car
Ter. I.cdyard e nilburn at 81 Wall street
Allhough Mr.. Lcdyard. Colonel Astor's
personal attorney. was inaccessible to-
day Mr. Bayliss. = member Of the firm
Raid
Statements Premature,
I, "Any statement in regard to Colonel
Astor's wlll Is premature at this time
although II is felt by his family that he
was lost with the Titanic The will will
be probatcd as soon rs II is proper. II
Will be necessary, OF course for all the
heirs 10 he apprised OF the fact. re-
grct | cannot Say more aL this time
Whether Colonel Astor made provision
IA his Will for the posthumous child that
4 Glr Ia
matter which Is most Interesting tn socI-
ETY.. Tho news Of The expected arrival
OF Mrs. Ava Willing Astor and her
dhughter Muricl has given rise 10 tho
rcport that the little girl has been made
co-heir with her brother Vincent, the
new head OF tho house Of Astor,
just what portion OF the estimated for
|fune OF 0,000, 600 II lay within Colonel
Astors power 10 leave by will was an
otner subject of speculation today. I'm
DER Inc VIII OF Colonel Astor's father.
William Astor. considerable portion OF
INC estate was held In trust for him and
'rpverted automatically Ia the estate on
ING death of Colonel John Jacob Astov.
Fortune for Expected Heir,
should there be another heir, I, is be-
i'esed that an arrangement will be made
whereby the child will obtain some mart
ot the fortune. IL IL not thought, how
over that this posthumous child Will be
~ generously provided for as either Vim
,rent or MurieL Neither is II believed
''hat MIS-. Avn Willing Astor will lay
,r'H'm io any part OF the estate. The
"'s' Mrs. Asl"r is said TO have signed
<Waay all rights in lien OF a 10000 COZ
S1seeusment at the lime she secured her
'enIce from Col"u,s Astor IN 1910
= niccnt Astor said today that he had
rSe,veo message from his mother In
*nlsh she said she would arrive I'm Nov
Xrrk next Friday OF Saturday Young
Astor aGded that Mrs. Madeleine
er,a see as'or mas not Jet related her cx-
Perishees IN the Titanic disaster.
III pr. faul ~. klmbalL who is Attending
llU'h young Wihow, said that she Ia cn
r.Ien out ot danger and VIII ne suff-
~sns'y recovered to leave her bed within
O. tsW days. He added that. with the ex-
r flrp,'"n of grief. she suffers no I'll cG-
Q'Sts "i her narrowing experiences.