The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-10
Or WILL
HANGS IN BALANCE
AGE OF PAPER ON WHICH IT Is
WRITTEN Is THE DETERMINE
ING FACTOR.
GRAND MIX-UP
WATER MARK MAY PROVE THAT
WILL Is FOGERY AND WRIT
TEN TWO YEARS AFTER
ALLEGED DATE.

NEW YORK, June 9.-Sometime
Wednesday Attorney Ewing, Of Ten
nessee. will walk into the office OF
the Remington Typewriter company.
81 Broadway, and ask for Archie But
Ter, take out from his inner breast
pocket a worn fold of paper and say:
Here is the original Of Mrs. Caro-
line Cloths will. Just look al h q
watermark and tell me IL the Wills
a forgery. The disposition of $1,000
600 depends on your wer
Mr.. Butler, who has handled type
writer paper and supplies for years,
expects to be able TO make affidavit
that the paper on which the will Is
written was not put on the market
until two a after h date OF the
will. If he does so there may be an
indictment or two for forgery down
in Shelby county, Tennessee.
Two Years. Difference.
"w. s. and B. Regent linen. made
in u. S. A." Is given as the mark
wrought IN the sheets on which Mrs.
Cloths will-known as the Clarendon
willis written. The will Is dated in
1898. But Mr.. Butler says the Rem
ington Typewriter company. former
ly wyckoff. Seamans & Benedict.
"w. s." did not market paper so
stamped until 1900.
The Clarendon will had been
thought to be valid until the question
of water mark was looked into. 1t
had even been admitted to probate.
Mrs. Cloths only heirs. DR.. John M.
Smaller and his sister, of Denver, and
half a dozen cousins in Rhenish.
Bavaria, had conceded the validity
Of the will and withdrawn a contest
they had filed.
Everything pointed to clear sailing
for F. Bruce Carrot, OF Memphis, who
document. but Miles s. buckingham,
business agent of the TRANCE woman
who starved to make a million wasn't
satisfied. He wrote to the Remington
company about the water mark. got
the answer that the paper used must
have been gotten later than 1893.
and sent Caruthers Ewing, his lawyer,
North with the will In his pocket.
At first there seemed to be no kin
and the State of Tennessee sought to
escheat the 81, 900, 600 she left. Under
the law it would have gone to the
public schools. Then DIR. Smaller and
his sister were found in Denver and
a search in Europe discovered the
steps could be taken to divide the
fortune, the Clarendon will came to
light.
How 1t Was Found.
Nobody knows just why it should
be called that. 1t was first found or
August 9Th in an old trunk in ar
attic on a farm on the outskirts of the
city. The man who found the will
after three searches for it was F
Bruce Garret, son of J. A. Garrett one
of the most honored and respected
men in Shelby county. His farm had
been sold when young Carrot went
there to hunt for the will.
This will made Bruce Carrot he'll
to $500 a quarter OF Mrs. Cloths
estate. After its finding. Bruce Gar
| ret said he remembered that Mrs
Cloth had taken a great liking to him
In his boyhood and had wanted tt
| adopt him. but he had refused to live
in. her home. His father afterward
| told him that Mrs. Cloth a provided
for him in her will .
One of the witnesses to this will
was the man who had bought the
Garrett farm. The other was a den
| fist In Memphis. He was dead. His
son made affidavit that the signature
was his fathers.