The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-26
COUGHS AFFINITY
WILL CD FAR AWAY
WITH HER GRIEF
Wants to Get Out of Public
Gaze and Probably VIII
Go WeS,.
WILLED ALL TO COUCH.
ri Am His Slave" She Wrote
in Document Drawn
Last July.
WrLLED ALL TO COUCH.

MONTICELLO. N. =. Dec. 3.-Almost !
stunned by the volume OF mail she has
received. Miss Adelaide NJ. Branch, who
for three years scorsted herself In Q
small room In the rear Of the late Msl.
win II. COUGHS law once In the Masonic
Temple a. his afiinity. will to-day decide
whore she will 20. She has received
many offers from phiianthropic persons
and institutions
II am expecting my brother" she said.
and untu he comes cannot say where
I may 20. All I desire IL to live quietly
whore I shail not be known. want to
be left alone with my sorrow. do not
think I shall 60 to Hartwick. where my
brother lives"
II 10 believed she will go West. She
has received many offers for tho story
Of her Me- and contracts to 20 on tho
stage. but will listen to none Of them.
| Cannot people realize that such q
thing would DO outrageous and absurdT'
she asked. She says she will take no
position a. stenographer. although she
had become proficient In doing COUGHS
work.
What I did will be dear to me as a
memory" She explained. but II would
break my heart to 20 back to suoh work
now. Not that would not. in other
circumstances. gladly accept such EN-
ptoyunent but II was from MIR. Couch
that learned to take shorthand notes
and to operate a typewriunx machine.
To resume the duties OF q stenographcr
would not be fair to him and II would
break my heart"
LEFT WILL GIVING ALL TO
!. COUCH.
Further evidence OF her devotion wal
found yesterday when Miss Louiss
Couch. in rummaging through papers II
j. her fathers private safe. came upoI
Miss Branch's will. which had been writ
. ten BY her and left everything to him.
Miss Branch hoped that her dealt
" would come before that OF her master.
!. She believed thst. although no was sixty
nv years old and she was twenty nv
. years his Junior. his remarkable vitality
vug.d give him at least twenty year
more OF life.
The determination to bequeath he
property. which. 80 far a. IL known
. consists OF mortgages aggrssatlnE ~,
). three suits of clothes and q few books
:. was reached Just before Miss Branc
left COUGHS room last July to seek 10
:, few days the companionship Of
woman In Ellsnville. N. Y.
~ loved him all through and to mir
riEhtfully belongs everything I posses
:. In this world" Miss Branch wrote 4
her will. according to Sheriff Kinni,
who took possession Of the do@imen
II only wish that I had moro than
possess to give to him. | am his slav,
and what 10 mine belongs to him."
Sheriff Ktnnie declined to make psa
lie the entire contents OF the will, bl
said Miss Branch designated every b
Of her clothing. a. we'll as the NOR
cages In the paper. which did not bss
the names Of witnesses.
COUCH WILL NOT FOUND Al
AL VET.
"A Miss Couch failed to find . VIM sSGns
M by her father. but she V confident h
or legal widow will have no trouble IN ol
r. tanning possession OF his propsrt!
n which amounts 20 less than 5000. ..
20 oording to the hamily's estimate
,J Miss Branch's only Joy was the r
,h turn Of . photograph Of Couch whie
~ had been taken from her effects
the attorneys once. Mrs. Couch 9
on possession OF II and refused to give
n. up. but Miss Branch pleaded a
"A, threatened. and late yesterday NJ
a Couch sent the picture to her.
al DR.. James A. Crauthers to-day he
.te an inquest on tho death Of Stanley
". smith. q local jeweller. who shot mir
ey self Christmas Eve. DR.. crauthers
In. sued a statement in which he said tn
I'd the shooting had absolutely nothing