The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
fight FOR ESTATE
OF A WOMAN Halter
BATTLE IN THE COURTS FOR
SIX THOUSAND ACRE RANCH.
STATE OF COLORADO.
PROPERTY WILLED TO A FRIEND


Brother Over Love Affair, and
Never Overcame Spiteful Attitude
Toward Women.
DENVER.-A battle in the courts
for the 100000 estate of the late
Edward Strachan Carey, eccentric
ranchman, woman hater" and a
grandson of an English nobleman,
whose 5000 acre ranch is located in
an isolated spot 20 miles east of By
ers, Col, will be renewed, according
to word received in Denver from
London.
The contestant will be Carey's
brother, DR.. Richard j. Carey, who,
estranged from Carey in his youth by
love affair, has already prosecuted
an unsuccessful four years fight for
possession of his property against
Richard Price, sheepman, to whom
Carey willed his entire estate.
Through Prices death, shortly be-
fore this contest was decided, how
ever, the Carey estate passed into the
possession of his widow. Against
Mrs. Price, a member Of the sex
which Carey avoided in a manner
which aroused doubt as to his sanity,
the second contest will accordingly
be directed.
Will Barred Feud.
The original contest centered abou;
the will, written by Carey personally
on a single sheet of notepaper. 1t
disclosed the testator's hatred of his
brother and explained the reason
which caused a cultured Englishman
to isolate himself from his social
sphere and erect a barrier of reserve
about himself which no woman ever
penetrated, and few men.
Carey was accounted one of the
most curious characters Of the west.
In effect he was a man of mystery.
In all the 40 years he lived in the
vicinity of Byers no woman ever
crossed the threshold of his house; no
woman ever got employment at his
ranch and a condition precedent to
the employment of a married man
was that the employe would agree to
keep his wife at distance.
Carey never talked about himself,
and almost all that is known here
concerning him came through reports
from England. He was son of the
Rev. Peter Carey, a clergyman of the
English church, who, according to
the reports, was the son of Scot
fish earl.
Came to Hunt.
These reports concerning Carey
fortune in the matter of birth were
sustained by the fact that he came to
Colorado originally as a member of a
hunting party organized by the late
Lord Dunraven.
At that time-the early seventies
Lord Dunraven owned Estes Park.
which he made the scene of annual
hunting excursions. Dunraven re-
NAMED here and ultimately estab-
lished the ranch, which later gave
him wealth.
From his attitude respecting wom-
en- he never relaxed, though his hos
pitality toward men is noted. During
one of the most severe winters in the
states experience, while a blizzard
ragged, it is related a man knocked
on the door.
Carey threw it open and invited
the man to enter.
81 shall have to go and get my
wife and child. They are out on the
road"
Refuses Succor.
Carey halted him.
81 am sorry" he said. "You and
the child may enter, but no woman
can ever enter my house."
The door was closed. And the man
turned away to seek refuge else
where. The nearest house was 10
miles away.
Carey never spoke of the reason
for his hatred of the other sex though
this will disclosed that it was con-
nected with his brother.
According to the story which
reached his friends here from abroad,
however, Carey, then in his late
twenties, was engaged to be married.
DR.. Carey, older than he, succeeded
in winning his ffance's affection and
ultimately married her.
There was never a reconciliation.