The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-08
REMEMBER RS BIRTH
 OF LOIS CAMPBELL
Banker McMillan Gives Evidence for Friends Daughter in
 $2O, 900, 900 Will Suit

New York, Jan. 8-F'our witnesses three of them physicians, gave testd- nomye yesterday tending to prove that Mrs. Ba1rkF1am, a young society WO1n- an of St. Louis and New York, is the daughter and heir Of James Camp bell, the St Louis capdtalist who died at Greenwich, Conn, on June 12 last.
 The deposftlons were taken under authority of the circuit court Of St Losldss where contest sl1it by neph- ews, nieces, and the only living sister of Campbell is pending The hear Ing was a continuation of that held in November at which the defense in troduced twenty New York witnesses, among them business associates of Campbell, who left an esta1te valued variously at from $14, 4,00O. GOO to $20,- GOO GOO.
 Again yesterday counsel for bhe plaiI1tiffs sought to show that the girl was not Camp bells daughter but a lsubstituted found lang
 Emerson MeMinin a banker Of 40 Wall street, who described hinself as sf71 years old, a farmer, with a voting place in New Jersey, 7 characterized Campbell, whom he knew intimately for tventy-five years. as a man re- marl1able for ahrewdness, good Jt1elsg-| ment, and foresight. MT McAIilldn, as president of tine Laclede Gas com pany of St. Louis, of which Campbell tI.4 most every two years for a number of, wears after 1888, and always stayed at the CaRnE EJbelI home
 He said Mr. Campbell was an af-. fecionaae fata1er and he had no rea@ son to doubt the percentage of tine child He frequently spoke with Campbell about the disposition of alis means, and Campbell always said he intended to en1ow some instdtu ton or erect a memorial Of some kind
 MT. Campbell, after the birth Of the heir, told me on several occasions that he would not leave his daughter more than a million dollars, said Mir. McMdI1fn He said he feared if he left Lois more than that men would woo her for her money, instead of for herself. and also that he thought a million dolIars enough to give any young person a start in Iife..'
 MT. McMi1lin said he knew the daughter exceedingly well, and re- membered the occasion of her birth.
 The morning after her birth MT. Campbell came to my office and i'm sisted upon taking me out to luncheon at 11:30,' MT. McAdi11fn continued 1T consented to go, but objected to the hour. He was insistent, saying he had eaten nothing since the day before because Of his vigil with the mother and child, and that he was starving and wanted a grand meal to celebrate the event. We went to the Lawyers club and ate and drank champagne for 8 total of $11. 60. [ remember well MT. Gampbell's humiliation when the waiter refused to let him pay because he was not 8 member Mir. Campbell departed vowing to join every club to which he could gain admission.
 1T also remember the birth of the daughter, because 1t was the only time in my life when was fool enough to pay s apiece for flowers. sent a box of roses to Mrs. Campbell, and she has often told me that I sent a little poem in the box, but can't rec ol1ect that. I thought I merely sent along with the flowers 9 note of con- gratulations'
 Besides the Laclede company, the East St. Louis Electric company, and the American Light & Fraction com pany. of whose board he is chairman, MT McNIillin said he served on a dog en other direetorates with MT. Camp bell.
 Dr. Walter Franklin Ghappen of East Fsfty-ffth street, who was Q partner of pr. Smith identified the signature of Dr. Smith on a bill for $2I0s paid by Campbell for services at the time of the birth of his child.
 Both of the other physicians testi- fed to the good standing of pr. Smith, who died in 1910. pr. John IF. HuddIeston, 50 years old, of 145 West