The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-07-31
LOST Will IS
NOT ADMITTED
Remarkable Contest for EnOS
Nichols Fortune Goes 10 Supreme
Court atNext Step

TECUMSEH, July 3l-In the dis
4 trlct court here Ht G:3O O'Clock
Inst evening Judge Watts denied ud
mission 10 probate the alleged lost Will
N Euus Nichols drcenscd, Involving an
estate amounting IN value to $3OO,OOO,
and another step was taken iu the
progress or whit hns become q some.
what celebrated ease Notice mined
lutely was given that the case would
be Appealed 10 the supreme court "
the stute The case has been on trial
here for two weeks, attracting wide
interest
Harriet Nichols Cook. until the
present time accounted the sole heir,
alreudy has been paid $4,000,
while S5l coo has been paid out 10
lawyers aud others for serN ices rcn-
dcred
The alleged lost will provides for
the distribution Of about Sl7OOOO as
follows; Eta Pheobus. $4,000; Louis
stout, her mother deceased. S25. 900,
Mrs Nellie Fisher $4,000: Mrs Mary
Davis $4,000; Mary Crimshuw 81.
GOO; Harriet Nichols Cook. $4,000
Wallace Haynes, $1,000; Mrs Rupert,
Wallace Haynes mother, $l0.OOO
three CrcnshHw sisters. 5000 cnch
and 10 another woman In Illinois
nbuut $1,000 These beneflcierics range
In klnship from nIeces to half grand.
nicccs and nephews
Many Witnesses Attend
When this alleged lost win was filed
In court George Outcelt was appoint.
ed as special Judge and he admitted
II to probation His decision was np.
pcaled from to the superior court
and later transferred to the district
court The case has been In progress
f0r more than two weeks. tho question
ic'ul hs TO admitting the viii 10 nro. .
mtC Witnesses are here from Cali ?
fornla to Philadelphia. Lawyers from
New Jersey and Illinois are crossing
forensic lances with local legal lights
I'm public interest the case Is regarded
M ranking next 10 the two.cent con. I
trpversy I'm the federal court at OK. /.
lnhomn City Detectives from the
Burns agency have been used Attor i
ney9 going to different cities NJ the
country have been shndowed FNtrn
Ordinary methods have been used by
both sides
Mrs Linton Star Witness
The star witness, and one which
viii hc deciding factor n not i'm.
pCachcd. is Mrs y. H. Linton of chi. /
caro former wife Of Major Cline. de.
CEASED, who the proponents claim
wrote the lost viii aIil had II iu hIs |
pn7scs''un In hls office nj Barry. III. 4
ul the time NJ Enos Nichols death 4
This woman testified that she did all Il
of the strnographic work Of her law. Il
yer hush, nd. and that she knew Of
no guch instrument that she would Il
have known about II II II had existed Il
llm H. II Smith called on her at her
home In Chicago aud nscertalned whnt Il
klud ol paper Major Cline used IN his
office for such Instruments NJ wills.
AMI what kind N typewriter. repre
scutlnc thot the Enos Nichols estate
owed Himself and Major Cline about
NWW. aud that II he could get the .
VIII admitted To- probate he would see
That she received the MAJORS pnrt
She testified that later on Mr.
smith In company with Judge Brnd
burn went 10 her home and asked her
to identify copy N the win aud re-.
lucstcd thut she accompany him 10
the Palmer house whore sle should
give her deposition relative 10 the
contents Of the will She testified
that Mr. Smith aud her husband exc
rutcd contract for the payment Ia
her " not less than thousand dol. .
lars, that MIR Smith sat down and
wrote out a set of questions and an
swcrs for her 10 mcmorlze that she
did partly memOrlzp them. that she
rode on the seat In an automobile
with MIR Smith down town and that
he conched her all the way as to what
to swear that her hushnud later nc.
cnsed her Of not telling the truth. that
she later told her attorney, l.. +. Ora
ham what she had done, that he ad.
lised her 10 make amends hy giving
another deposition which she aid
That she never saw a will which bore
the signature " Enos Nichols. neither
a copy that she handled all OF her
correspondence that she
testified. falsely when the first demo
sltions were taken This witness was
ON the stand several hours and she
all the while was as composed AS tbe
Judge ON the bench.