Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-17
WILL FIGHT PAYMENT Of
INSANE WOMAN'S TAXES
j. Frederick Kernochan, of New
York, Admits Marie Marshall Es-
tate Is Worth S3,OOO,OOO.
GOES TO HER TWO SISTERS
In Interview, Kernochan Says Miss
Marshall Is New Yorker; in Sworn
Affidavit Filed in New York, He
Says Her Residence Is in Virginia.

Mctaphorically speaking. the plot in
the Marie Marshall estate tax tanSle
! thickens new climax has developed
IN the expressed determination OF j.
/ Frederick Kcrnochan, who with tho
New York Life Insurance and Trust
| company, is acting committee for
/ the insane multi-millionaire Of Will
| liamshurC. to resist payment OF taxes
| to the state of Virginia and city of
WILLIAMSBURG
| Mt kernochan says that fair and
reasonable and just taxes on the Marie
Marshall estate have been paid in past
years VIII be paid for tho current wear
and VIII be paid in future years But
! Miss Marshall's committee will not nc
! cept the estimate of taxes due based
upon the report OF Examiner OF Rec
VIII fight to the court OF last resort
the United States Supreme Court
ESTATE Is VALUED
ny KERNoCHAN At $4,000 900
The value of Miss Marshams es-
tate" says Mr.. Kcrnochnn, us prob
ably sa,ooo.ooo 1t did not amount O to
that much when he father died in
| 1881. 1t Is made up OF bonds and
mortgages. Whatever real estate has
been added to it was through the fore
closure OF mortgages. The real estate
is but small part of the whole Miss
Marshall is New Yorker. although
she has lived in williamsburg for
years.
Il want to say that there has been
no attempt to evade the payment of
taxes. All these years Miss Marshall
has paid taxes on the real estate
owned by her In Virginia and she has
! paid for the horses and carriages and
indeed, for all her property in that
State, and this includes the Income she
spent there In New York her prop
erty is not taxable because il is nearly
! all in non -taxable mortgages Unless
the Virginia authorities change their
minds the examiners report Will mean
lawsuit We will surely resist paw
ment."
CITY OF WILLIAMSBURG
CLAIMS TOTAL or 1900, 600
All Of which indicates that the State
and the city OF williamsburg are CON
frontcd by long and strenuous litica
tion, for the authorities are not in
clined to relieve the estate OF the ac-
cumulated back taxes due The VIII
! liamsburE authorities who are stand
ing by the examiners report, claim
taxes amounting to Approximately
100000, The States claim, based nm
on the examiners figures. is about
$4,000.
1t is learned that the initiative in
the search for omitted taxable values
In the Marshall estate was taken by
the City Council OF williamsburg and
the local Board OF Review. The board
instructed Examiner Smith to dclve in
to the records and employed to assist
him Attorneys Frank Armistead OF
Williamsburg. and s. Otis Bland, of
Newport News Examiner Smith en-
tered encrEctically into the quest after
Atorney-Gcncral John Garland Pol
lard, who haa been Informed Of the
situation by the local Board of Re-
view, wrote to Mr.. Smith. advising him
MS to his duties in tho matter At
torneys -Armistcad and Bland went to
New York and probcd deep into the
affairs of the estate of the multi-mil-
lionaire insane woman. Attorney-Gcn
eral Pollard gave the case his special
attention and has secured from the
records certified copy of the affidavit
filed by MIR. Kcrnochan when he ask cd
for and obtained relief from an as
scssmcnt on the personal estate of
Miss Marshall amounting to $4,000
in New York County.
TIRGINIAN IN NEW YORK;
NEW YORKER IN VIRGINIA
! In tho interview quoted above Mr.
kcrnochan is represented as saying:
| Miss Marshall is a New Yorker, al
though for years she has lived in Will
! liamsburg. Va"
nochan in the Department of Taxes
and Assessments. OF New York City,
February IL. 1903, nc swcars as fol-
| lows:
The said Marie Marshall is not a
resident OF the State OF New York. She
was not a resident of tho State OF New
! York on the second Monday OF jan
nary. 1903. She is a resident OF the
State of Virginia continuously for over