Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-08
EAST ORANGE MAN
DENIES BARONESS
WORTH 100000
step Grandson Discounts Value
of Estate of Former Mrs.
Frank Leslie.

The estate of the Baroness de Ba-
JUS, who was Mrs. Frank Leslie, Is
worth only 5000, 000 and is not worth
1000, 000 as it was reported, or any
here near that sum. according to
tatement made today by Frank Les
lie, of East Orange, step-grandson oil
he baroness
The will. which was dated May ~
914, was filed in New York yesterday,
nd contains specific bequests, aggre-
ating $4,000. The rest Of her estate
he left TO the cause of suffrage. Mr..
.eslie says he doesn't know where the
money is going to come from. He
.nows the baroness did not have any
3uch holdings.
The sum 10 be devoted to the cause
II woman suffrage is left to Mrs. Car
lie Chapman Gait. The largest spe-
siflc beuuest was $4,000 to Mrs. Carrie
Il. Wrenn, of So Pierrepont street,
Brooklyn, a niece OF the baroness;
Mrs. Wrenn is also to receive all
household furniture, silver plate. mu-
ical instruments and other personal
fleets of the testatriX. Other be-
quests are made to the American So
iety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and "A number of frlends.
frank Leslie is not mentioned IN the
document. In making the provision
lor the sum to be used for advancing
The cause of woman's suffrage, the
will states:
Il leave my residuary estate to Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. 1t is my ex-
Dectation and wish that she turn all
my residuary estate into cash ana
apply the whole thereof as she shall
hink most advisable to the further
ance of the cause of women's sur
rage, to which she has so worthily
devoted SO many years of her life, and
hat she shall make suitable provision
so that in case of her death any bal
Ance thereof remaining unexpended
shall be applied and expended in the
same way; but this expression of my
wish and expectation is not to be
taken as creating any trust or as
limiting or affecting the character of
he gift TO her. which | intend to be
absolute and Unrestricted.
"Her estate isn't worth 100000.
IT anything near the sums that have
been reported" said Mr.. Leslie today
in speaking of his step grandmother S
will. II doubt If her entire holdings
will be more than 100000.
"When she succeeded to the estate
Of my grandfather there were thir-
teen active and paying publications
left by him. My understanding is that
At the time of her death she owned
but one-half interest in one of these
publications, and that was the 'Popu-
lar Monthly 1t seems that she was
not possessed of her usual shrewd-
ness when she was persuaded to sell
out a half interest in that monthly.
1T has been reported that when
the baroness fell heir to my grand
fathers estate. the various publica-
lions he controlled were totterlng, and
that by her remarkable business abil-
ity they were all placed on a paying
basis. This is not so. | believe the
facts are directly to the contrary.
Within few years she allowed the
handsome income derived from these
magazines to dwindle. and lost them
all with the exception of the half in
terest in the monthly ] mentioned.
When an accounting is made l be-
lieve it will be found that the estate
of the baroness is worth only 100000,
instead of $4,000, 000''