The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-27
FRAUD MTIMATED IN CONTEST
FOR THE CAMPBELL MILLIONS
Reunited Mother of Heiress
said to Deny Birth of
Daughter Here.
WHOLE CASE LIKELY
TO BE OPENED AGAIN

eulryar & Cromwell. attorneys, an
,oupccd g.. fterday through Clarke NJ
rosencrautz Of tn, firm that they had
ascoycrcl evidence tina they believe will
n.ove ma, Mrs. edith Blair OF st. Louis.
ohio test fed in the contest Of the &c.
moo 600 will of James Campbell. 81.
louis bank 20 and street railway mag
nate. tina. she was the s.cpmother of
NJ woman claimed to have given birth
"a the child who Mr.. and Mrs. Camp
bsil said was their daughter, and is now
Ms Lois Ann Campbell Burkham. is in
,.a,i,y the same woman who attempted
N break the Wills OF two other wealthy
men. They promise further Develop
uen,s concerning some OF the contest
ants witnesses.
sullivan 4 Cromwell. who are attor-
news for Mrs. Campbell and her daugh-
,.r. Mrs. Burkham, have conducted this
Investigation because they believe l.
Frank ottofy. counsel for the con-
,estants, intends TO protest the Will
AGAIN. A motion for a retrlal was
argued last week before Judge Kinsey
IN 81 Louis n decision reserved. AL
Enough a Jury in the Circuit Court de.
.ded on May s that Mrs. Burkharn
"a the legitimate daughter OF James
Campbell and Florence Ann Campbell.
4, was desired to set at rest forever
.he claim tina a child had beea sub
.,i,u,ed and that the child was not OF
Plight Lois Ann Campbell Burkham. but
,he daughter OF Mrs. Anna Elizabeth
Hicks.
In their investigation the lawyers
Rain. and fortify their claim at many
points with photographs, affidavits and
occasionally testimony in the will case.
cha, they have discovered Mrs. Hicks
living quietly near st. Louis, and that
she denies absolutely not merely having
given her BABY daughter to the Camp
bens in New York On March IL. 1898.
bu, denies ever having borne a giri
b,by in New York. The lawyers assert
also that she rave birth to a son only
q few months before that date In 81
Louis.
Other Estates Contested.
",rrs Hicks. they say. is not a step
s-ughter of Mrs. Blair. the contestants
,,,r wi,ncss, but her W daughter.
,bongh she has not seen her mother TOT
some wears. interviewer with TINS Story
.Ur. Hicks told Mr.. Rosencrantz last
reat il n remarkable tale OF the al
,er.i activities OF her mother. Mrs.
Bla.r. In attempting by somewhat SIM
liar means to get a share In the es'a.e
a, TWO other wealthy men, Thomas H.
Rlythc. California stee, manufactures
and ,John Stetson. Boston millionaire
husband of Kate Stokes, once a noted
circus rider. .
Tn Importance of these contentious
4, ,hcy can be proven, and sullivan
A Cromwell are sure they can. IN inc
Campbell will suit will be realized when
II, s recalled that Judge kinsey charseu
mo Jury in that suit that the sole issue
uas whether the child Lois was born
N lanes Campbell and Mrs. Campbeii.
W. Campbell left a life interest IN ms
estate 10 his widow. daughter and the
,a,ter's issue. Upon their death the
entire estate was to go 10 ST Louis
University. Other relatives contestine
The will charged that Mrs. Burkham was
not the Campbells' daughter. thai James
Campbelrs win was not legal NAV no
was unduly influenced in making II ana
ras NO, M sound mind when he did so.
certified copies OF birth and baptismai
record, showing that Lois Ann Camp,
hell was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Camppeii
Mt the Union Square Hotel, New 10TH
on March II, 1898, were INTRODUCED
1ojs Campbell married Elzey G. Burk-
ram. a civil engiAeer, in st. LOUIS last
September.
letter Lost in Galveston Flood
The story Of Mrs. Blair on the stand
was that Mrs. Hicks was ner s.ep-
daughter, who married Hicks IN Ga'.
weston. TEX, in 1892. and that .nicks
soon disappeared. In Marcn. 1879, sw
said. her daughter Mrs. Hicks wrote
tha, a girl had been born to her at the
Grand Union Hotel in New YORK ana
,donted by some wealthy peor.e named
Camnbel OF ST. Louis" Tha letter was
los, in the Galveston food, Mrs. BAR
said. .,.
Mrs. Blair testified that Mrs. HICKS
IS now the wife of an nghsh DUKE Nv
Ing in England. She wouid NOT srve
her husbands name, title or place y.
residence. Mr.. Rosencrantz says ina
"Nrs Hicks" who denies that she ever
has been married TO a cuke, appeared =
few weeks ago in st. Louis, where sht
was recognized as the daughter OF MIS-
Blair. and said tina she did not KNOW
Mr. or Mrs. Campbell. According 10
Mr.. Rosencrantz, Mrs. Hicks was twice
used in efforts to obtain a snare vi os
estates. -
Mrs. Blair, It is said, was born
Gloraine Ray at Pleasant Hin, HI neaI
Pttsield, III, about 1855. She married
John T. Snoddy in Norborne. MO-, III
1873. and Mrs. Hicks" her alleged step
daughter. was born OF that marriage III
Norhorne on October ., 1874, and named
Laura.
In 1879 Snoddy died and In 1881 Mrs
Snoddy, or Mrs. Blair. married Lewis
Cass Hitchcock. "A well to DO real es-
tate man, in Chicago. In the late eos
she told her husband that she was a
daughter of Thomas II. Blythe. n can
| t0Iria steel man, who had died leaving
s70oo,0Oo and had been brought up ny
a foster father in Pittsfeld, Ill, near her
birthplace.
Mrs. Blair. or Mrs, Hitchcock, as she
then wa, dropped this claim, and In
1871 or l>a2 she and her husband were
divorced, Hitchcock married his step
daughter, Mrs. Hicks" Late in ls92
= 'ew months before the birth OF the
Campbell child. now Mrs. Burkham. a
scr was born to Mr., and Mrs. Hitch
coDk Il was claimed in the Campbell
SUI that IT was her daughter, born