The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-17
COBBLER GETS
HETTY GREEN COIN


second cousin!"
That's the way We always figured
II out" he replied, and want 10 say
that both she and her son Eddie were
awfully misjudged by people"
/ Other heirs TO the HcttS VrcCn cs-
/ tate are Mrs. Eugene &. Murdoch, tho
1 wife OF a st. Paul music teacher, who
will shortly receive $1,000 from tho
estate; Horace A. Merrill. T0-yoar-old
cobbler, OF Charlotte, Mich. who, al
/ though he' still lives humhly In tho
I little one-room Cobhler's store whore
he has tOiled for many years liz daily
receiving shoals OF mail containing Of
/ fers of marriage and CntreatiCB >tor
J some small share OF the 100000 which
\ he has just learned will soon be paid
! TO him; Mary Shouldy, who lived with
! her father, Thomas Shouldy, farmer
/ in Lake City for many years, but rO-
Gently married and journeyed with her
\ husband to Saskatchewan, Canada: Il.
/ Il. Morton, OF Miles City. Mont, who
wax rendered temporarily spccchlcss
by the receipt OF n letter informing
/ him that he shortly will receive Il
check for $4,000, and Laura Shoudy.
\ Mary Shoudys sister-but hor good
/ fortune will mean little to Laura for
she has been an inmate for ten years
OF the Owatnnna state School for tho
I Feeble minded.
lIONlnnd Fortune Made In Fishing.
Half century ago, Sylvia Ann How
land, spinstor, who has been mention
cd above, died at her homo In New
Bedford. possessed OF the snug for
tune OF S2025,0O0, which, like all tho
rest Of Hetty Green's inheritance. had
been earned In the whale fishery and
allied lines Of the foreign trade and
shipping by the Arm OF |. Rowland, Jr.,
and Company. one OF tho largest ship
ping Arms In the world in its day.
Sylvia Ann made tho following
clause in her will for the purpose o.
spreading the benefits OF her wealth
throughout her family. and defeating
lletty Greon's well-known desire to
concentrate 1t and keep Il intact for
her own use and disposition after her
death.
The VIII.
"All the rest, residue and remain
der OF my estate / give, devise and
bequeath to Edward D. Mandoll,
George Rowland. Jr., and william A.
Gordon, their heirs and assigns, in
! trust for the use and purposes hbre-
in set forth. !. direct the said trus-
tees to pay the net income from time
TO time 10 my niece, Kettle H. Robin
son !. And upon the deoense Of tho
said Hetty II. Robinson, !. direct and
order the said trustees and their sue
cessors to pay, distribute and divide
the whole Of said residuary estate to
and among all the llneal descendants
then living OF my grandfather, Gideon
Rowland; and If all the llneal descend
ants then living are in the same do
gree of kindred to the said Gideon
Rowland, they shall share the said
estate equally and shall be paid in
equal shares-otherwise they shall
take according to the right Of repre-
sentation, and tho said trustees shall
pay them respectively such portion
as shall. according TO the right Of rep
resentation, belong to them
Forgery Charge Made.
That Hetty always bitterly resent
ed this action was made evident when,
a few weeks after the will was Of
fered for probate, she appeared vita
what purported to be later testa-
ment, which gave her the bulk OF the
property. 1t was incidental to this
controversy that she narrowly es4
capped a charge of forgery. In fact.
the charge made against her fell short
only technically of such an accusation.
Handwriting experts were strongly in-
clined to the belief that the signature
on the second will was tracing
from that on tho first, and the hear
ing developed one of the strongest
cases on record of expert handwrit-
ing evidence.
Opposition Withdrawn.
Suddenly Hetty Green took good adj
vice and, almost overnight, withdrew
her opposition to the original will.
Throughout her life, however, she
never ceased to hound the trustees
in an attempt to capture more of the
money than a mere life interest At
one time she even sued to have the
increment Of the trust funds set of
to her, as we'll as tho strict income;
she lost the cast. Thirty years after
Sylvia's death she sued the executor
OF the Mandell estate, claiming that
she had lost money through their
IduiLy investment VI lno lunu5. LIB
case, too, she lost.
It is estimated that the fund for dis
trlbution is now inventofied at ST.
635i557.66 and from charts in possess
sion OF the trustees 1t is believed that
there are living today exactly 408 heirs
nf Gideon Rowland, Of Dartmouth,
sylyia's grandfather, whom she made
The source Of descent in her will. These
40S will all share in the vast proper
ty.
The work OF ascertaining the names
and present addresses of the heirs
is now in progress under the dlrec-
ton Of the trustees who are Oliver
Prestcott. Of New Bedford; H. B. Day,
the Boston banker, and Il, II, R, Green,
Of New York. o..