The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-21
.DR. HEFT JOINS
 OWN MOTHER IN
 FIGHT FOR CASH
Son of Railroad Financier Ready to Sacrifice Part
 of Legacy.
LAWYERS CONFER IN
 SENSATIONAL SUIT
Talk of Settlement Before Matter Reaches Trial
 Probate Court Acts.

pr. George Stanley Heft, son of the late Col Nathan Hopkins Heft by his first wife Mrs. Frances Helene Heft, who divorced the colonel, has Joined his mother in an effort to get what he believes her rightful share of the estate and also to keep from the sec ond wife, Mrs. Mary Josephine Moore Hefts a large share of the money and property she otherwise will inherit. Mrs. Frances Helen Heft has brought suit to recover ahmony of $10O,o00 or more, which she claims was due concealed more than $50e, 900 in per senal property when she got a divorce from him in 1903.
 z Action was brought just as Dr. Stanley Heft and Mrs. Mary Josephine M. Heft, administrators of the estate would have been required to render a-ffnat accounting. In the probate court today Judge Paul l.. Miller ex- tended. the time to Sept. 25 in which claims against the estate may be fil- edf. Attorney John 8. Pullman who is counsel for Mrs. Mary Josephine Moore Heft did not file any objection This will also give time for correction in the papers which referred to Dr. Heft and Mrs. Heft as executor and executrix when they should have been named as administrator and admins tratrix.
 Dr. Heft and his mother had a long consultation today at the offices of DeFerest & Klein, with counsel for Mrs. Heft, Cornelius T. Driscol, for mer mayor and exploration counsel of New Haven, William B. Stcddard of Milford and Robert E. 5DeForests of I this city. They discussed all phases of the case but refused to say any thing about the suit after the con- ference ended. Both Mrs. Reft and her son refused to say anything for | III Heft has joined with his mother in her endeavor to get larger portion of the Hefts estate.
 In the brief prepared by Alter ney DriscoH which will be presented to the Superior court in October it is | claimed that when the first wife of Col. Heft got her divorce in 1903 she i accepted her husbands statement that ! he was worth but $19a, 0ee and took $2e, ,00o, one-fifth of his estate, while as matter of fact she was entitled to one-third at least.
 Counsel for Mrs. Frances Helene Heft also claims that Col. Heft was possessed of immense wealth ot which she knew nothing and which she could not compel him to disclose They claim Mrs. Heft has not been able to tell howA much her husband was really worth at the time of their | divorce until the inventory of his estate was filed in the probate court here. All the tangible property he had was the house in Park avenue and its contents.
 The counsel for the first Mrs Heft will set up that when she obtain ed her divorce she was cheated out Of a large sum in alinaony and therefore she is entitled to share in the more than $300.000 which the colonel left As he died without leaving ai will, un- der the law his widow, the second Mrs. Heft would receive one-third the estate outright. The remaining two-thirds would fall as a legacy to the son. In supporting his mother he is voluntarily giving up a large share of money and property which would fall to him.
 There was a rumor today that . settlement of the. matter would be made before it reaches the court but l neither the second Mrs. Heft or hel counsel could be located today, and counsel for Mrs. Frances Helene lief said that matters had not progressed 1 far enough to say whethAr. or not 2 settlement would be made out o1
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