The Press., 1914-02-11
WALES.

Mrs. Fred Royce is very. i'll from the effects of shock.
 George Lanphere, who has been sick for a number of weeks, is slowly inn proving.
 Much interest is taken in the liti- gation between the Mcfarland and HiscOck estates, and as suits continue to be entered against the former the hope for a Mcfarland memorial li- brary from the proceeds of that estate is diminishing daily. Mrs. Mary Mo- Farland, executrix of the estate, is defending the actions which reflect upon the accuracy of her late hus- bands accounts to the best of her ability, and is the recipient of con- siderable sympathy. She lives a rather secluded life as result of her years of almost total deafness, and her position is rather pathetic. In his will the late H. A. Mcfarland provided for library building for the town, and genuine hopes were he'll that this would materialize, as the town has no library building to house very fairsized collection of literature an reference books which has been growing since the library was started about 1896.
 Litigation directed against Mrs. Mary Mcfarland, as executrix of the will and administrative of the estate of Herbert A. Mcfarland, late of Wales, and associate judge of the dis trict court of Eastern Hampden, in Palmer, based on charges of misman- agement of estates of which he was trustee, has been started in local courts. On the appeal of the heirs of the estate of Isaiah Hiscock, late of Wales, from the allowance of certain items in the account of the administra- trix of the Mcfarland estate, charges were made in the hearing before Judge Wallace R. Heady as referee that about SIP, 900 included in the inventory of the Mcfarland estate be- louged to the Hiscock estate and part, at least, had improperly been retained by Judge Mcfarland in various real estate deals. A suit for $5OO0 in either contract or tort against the Nc Farland estate was also entered Tues day in superior court by Frank S. Mason, conservator of Daniel l.. Stew art of Wales. It is charged in this suit that Judge Mcfarland, in his in- ventory of the estate of Adam Stew art, stated that $50 in the personal property assets was for a pair of horses which afterward sold for 1925, that yoke of oxen was sold and the money not accounted for, that $475 paid on a mortgage on a farm of Stewards to Mcfarland was not ac. counted for, that 5000 was paid to Adam Stewart for a deed to land be- fore his death in 1884, but never ac- counted for by Judge Mcfarland, that Ju lge Mcfarland had cut wood from the chestnut hill lot of the estate for from 1 , to 20 years and never ac- counted for it, and that as treasurer of the Wales Savings bank, Mcfarland loaned $568 on real estate belonging to George M Stewart i'll trust for Daniel L. Stewart and great damage resulted Mrs. Rosa V. Cooke of Wales brings suit against the McFar- land estate through the law firm of Gardner & Gardner for $4nOO, which she claims for services rendered. Will. liam N. King of Springfield enters suit for $2OOO for services as a real estate broker. In the testimony Monday af ternoon in the hearing on the account before Referee Heady, evidence was submitted to show that William H. and A. s. King, acting as real estate brokers, had sold farms and wood lots larger than those contained in the in ventory. In one instance, the Jack son farm in Stafford and the Avery farm in Sturbridge, W.H. King testi. fiel that Judge McFarland's price tC him was $65OO, that he sold tht properties for $95OO. The Hiscock heirs claim they only got $575O. MT. King testifiel that Judge Mcfarland asked for part of his own profits and he said he remembered bringing out $500, in cash as directed, to Judge Mcfarland in Brimfield. The defense attempted to bring out that price was made to Judge Mcfarland by the heirs and he sold the property to MT. King, who made the profit but not hy acting as broker for Mr. Mcfarland or for tue estate. Charles H. Beck with, c. c. Gardner and O. N. Bar rows are for the Hiscock heirs, and D. F. Dillon and E. T. Hobson for the Mcfarland estate George E. Clough gh of Palmer is for Frank s. Mason and A. 0. King is for Frank S. Mason and A. c. Fairbanks for W. H. King The Mcfarland estate inventories in the neighborhood of $3O, 900. The Hiscock estate is worth about $ln, . 00O.
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