Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-27
GHOST BOBS
Up IN FORT
WILL SUIT
Heirs Resist Claim Of Stenogra-
pher to 100000 Estate Of
Chattanooga Lawyer.

CHATTANOOGA. Jan. 27.-The
ghost Of Colonel Tomlinson Fort
chided her for not carrying out the
wishes that ne in life had expressed
to her, according to a statement
which attorneys for the Fort heirs to-
day sought TO have Miss Lizzie H.
Carroll admit having made, follow
4 ng be-. action in relinquishing to the
her part of the property left by
Colonel Fort This effort came in
4 cross examination of Miss CAROLS
deposition in the suit over the $780,
4 900 estate Of the eccentric Chattanoo-
ga lawyer native of Georgia and
4 rother-in- of the late Julius
4 Brown, of Atlanta
4 Miss Carroll would not admit out
B right that she made this statement,
b0, declared that she might have
dreamed something like that"
Sought Atlanta Stenographer.
Miss Carroll testified on cross-ex-
4 animation Of having made several
trips to Atlanta to find the stenogra-
pher who wrote the deed of gift by
which Colonel Fort is alleged to have
given her his confidential secretary
and stenographer for twenty years,
the remainder of his property which
in the absence of any paper to show
that it was intended for her, she had
turned over to an administrator for
the benefit of the heirs at-law. She
/ denied having importuned Colonel
Fort to prepare papers showing that
the property was intended for her, but
said she had told him that he ought
10 set down what he Intended TO do.
AFTER his death, she said, she thought
me property belonged to her, but that
N the absence of a paper giving her
al OF 1t, she decided to turn part of
over to his heirs. Then the deed of
gilt alleged to have been prepared
/ IN Atlanta, together with an anony-
nous letter explaining it, turned up
and she proceeded to set aside her
previous action in relinquishing
part Of the property.
The suit for possession of the Fort
estate was reopened Unexpectedly this
week by an order from the Chan
eeior and probably will require all
o This week and next to finish.
Immediately after Colonel Forts
oeath in December, 1910, the woman
VINO had been closest to him for
many years produced an alleged au-
ogfaph document giving her much Of
0Ol'heI Forts property outright, as
wei as other property which she
ioFmerly told the court was to be kept
j" rust for the heirs of Colonel Forts
ofotner, John P. Fort, of Mount Airy,
Heirs Make Settlement.
aller this document was filed in
'Aaheery the heirs, who had been in
l"Aed to scout Miss CAROLS claim,
a7Feed to a compromise by which
-s property not given to Miss Car
y" n her own name was placed in
we hands of George Fort Milton,
'spnew Of Colonel Fort, for admin
s'rauon.
Late in 1911, another sensational
~ mysterious step was taken when
y'ael Robert Pritchard. Miss Car
attorney, announced that he had
gs7'Ved through the mails an anony-
mus note accompanying what APP
oearea to be a deed of gift to Miss
''I'H Of the property which for
merry she had relinquished to the
s'rs This deed purported TO have
ssH executed in Atlanta and was
-a.ed November 5, 1910.
=, Ing hearing of this case confined
"o morning in the cross examination
J. MSS Carroll, who yesterday testi-
~ ~ 70 her entire connection with
59''nei Fort and his affairs She de-
.areo the documents to be genuine,
~. 'ae language in every respect the
as Colonel Fort had used to her.
!. efowded courtroom expected that
/, sai character of the attack that
von,so e made upon Miss Carroll soon
'V-'l be revealed.