New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
WILL A FORGERY,
 THE EXPERTS SAY
lElng Document, Giving Gaston
 < leans a Million, Worth Nothing

X New York, Oct. 3.-Handwriting Might to John T. Dooling, assistant dis atrict attorney, that the alleged sec spnd will of James c. King, husband
 Nf Mrs. Maude A. Robinson King, zsavns in their opinion forgery. That as the will for the substantiation of (which Gaston B. Means, under ar Fest in Concord. N C., as the alleged Alayer of Mrs. King, would have re- sceived nearly $1O0O,0OO. In the &Apinion of MT. Dooling the document &orms the center of the mass of docu-
 &nents which eventually will be used
 hy the prosecution to establish mo-
 five for the staying. of Mrs. King,
 Nwhose confidential adviser Means was,
 knd at whose home she was staying &At the time she met her death.
 Examination of the alleged will has
 been in progress virtually from the time Mrs. King was shot to death at 6an unfrequented spring near Concord.
 Many outstanding peculiarities were afound by the experts who examined itha instrument for the district attor- Sney, but he refused to discuss them fllast night, beyond stating that the re- kport satisfied him that his original 3auspicions regarding the authenticity .Eof the will were correct.
 |k Means now is in jail awaiting action &by . grand jury. He contends that Ehe found the second will of Mrs. .kKings husband, who was wealthy s1umber dealer. Mrs. King received {t$100.000 under an ante-nuptial agree .{ment, but she repudiated the agree 33mOnt after her husbands death, con- .ateSted his will and obtained settle Sment under which she received $1,- [oO0, ,0O0.
 Means asserts that he began his 10arch for second will soon after he
 Became Mrs. Kings adviser and that he eventually found it in a tin box somewhere in Chicago. If it had keen abolished it would have given
 1Grs. King an estate valued at ap- 8proximately $4,000,000. and out of this ann, under an agreement Means had with Mrs. King, he would have re- ceived about $1,000,000 for his work in finding the will and having it es- ttablished in court. The alleged orig inal copy of the purported will was Recovered by MT. Dooling here by means of 8 subpoena upon Carl l.. Hchurz, an attorney whom Means had
  fThe prosecutor still was examining {this material at midnight, but he re- {fused to say what bearing it had Ioither on the alleged murder of Mrs. King or the other crimes it will be fcontended were committed in con- {nection with Mrs. Kings affairs. Many lof the papers, however, related to Financial transactions conducted by Mrs. Mary c. Melvin, Mrs. Kings sis l \ ter, who still in staying at the Means |home, in North Carolina. 1 Several specimens of writing papers were under scrutiny by the district attorney and the experts last night One specimen in particular engaged their attention because it bore no wa l ter mark, circumstance that was considered by MT. Dooling as of ex- treme importance in connection with the examination of the paper on which the alleged forged will was |typewritten.
 Pending completion of MT. Dool- ing's investigation, presentation of the case to a local grand jury is being deferred, and that body probably will not begin receiving evidence until the latter part of the week.