Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-05
||WAL7ER HUTCH|NS ENDS
| STORY OF FATHERS LIFE
Describes Principal Events in Ca
reer Of Financier Whose Will
Is in Dispute.

| Walter Hutchins' narrative Of the life
Of his father, Stilson Hutchins. was
continued this morning under direct
examination of r. Ross Perry. senior
counsel for the defense in the effort
to have the last will of the dead
financer declared void. which Is being
made by Lee Hutchins in the District
Supreme Court before Justice Ander-
son. The infinite detail of this MARIA
tive by Mr.. Hutchins, caveatee in the
case and generally recognized to be
the most important witness for the de-
Tense, has necessitated a certain tedium
of procedure and at the close of this
mornings session the principal events
in the testator's life in 1905 had just
been completed.
| The testimony dealt principally with
business affairs in which the witness
was associated with his father. The
telegraphone, the Purity Ice Company, the
Marine Paint Company, moving PIC
ture enterprise and the numerous
realty deals of Mr.. Hutchins were
among those mentioned.
| At the opening of court the witness
inaccuracies in his yesterdays testi-
mony. He explained that while yes
Iterday he had contradicted the asser-
ton of William J. Dante. trustee for
obtained a power of attorney from Lee
Hutchins which enabled him to con-
summate the telegraphone deal, care
| full consideration had led him to be
lieve that he had been wrong. Mr.. Hutch
Inns explained that his brother, Lee,
| held a general power of attorney Tor
I his father at that time. and that he,
Walter. fearing that his power was
not sufficient to insure security IN the
Important deal, asked Lee to give him
additional control. This. said the wit
ness, was done. and it was with this
power that the transaction was ultl-
mately contaminated.
Regretted Three Steps Taken.
Walter Hutchins told of converse
| ton with his father in the spring OF
| 1906, in which the latter expressed ex-
IRENE regret for three steps he had
taken in regard to his wife, Rose Keel
| ing Hutchins. The first of these, &C
cording to the witness, was the de-
struction of an anti-nuptial contract ne
| had with his wife. The second was the
| showing of an undesignated Will TO
Mrs Hutchins, which led to her e2-
pressing dissatisfaction with the pro
vision made for her, and a demand that
the stone house at MIR. Hutchins sum
mer home, Governors Island. be decided
to her This, Mr.. Hutchins told his
son Walter, had been 'foolishly done,
and within six months Mrs. Hutchlns
had mortgaged the property.
The investment of Stilson Hutchins
in an alleged gold mine near Paterson,
n. j.. was brought out In the course
of the testimony. Gold was never
found, the witness explained, and sub
sequently the land. which was held
by his father as security for his in
vestments. was disposed of.
Many letters from Stilson Hutchlns
to the witness were put in evidence
in the course of the narrative. These
were principally concerned with in
tricate business matters and q discus
sion of the writer's health.
The witness Swore that while his
father was in Washington in the fall
of 1905 he put in four or five hours
of work each day at his office.