The Press., 1917-02-01

Od1GlACAo 70 NJ
 Score: 32 to 1; baskets from the floor, Mullins, Argenta 2, Levene ?, Calohera, Bernardo, Campo; bask cts on free tries, Levene 6, Moriarty !; referee, T F. Yare; timer, Cummings |; time, minute halves. A Mysterious Will of Mrs. Myra Con-
 verse Comes to Light
 On the same day that the lawyers representing the different interests in the Converse estate were holding a meeting in New York last week for the purpose of winding up the details of the agreement which was supposed to end all litigation which has been in the courts for twenty years, an alleged will of Mrs. Myra Converse was received by Judge Fisk. The envelope came by registered mail and was mailed in Springfield, Mass, and asked that the return card be sent tc lgeneral delivery, Springfield. Efforts lto find out who mailed the will 1T ISpringfeld have failed, and at last accounts the return card had not beer called for in Springfield. Mrs. Myr' Converse died about four and one- hal years ago, and as it was not knowl she had left a will, her son, J. Oar IConverse, was appointed administrato of her estate and was proceeding t' settle the same as an intestate estate Warren D. Chase of Hartford, tn receiver of the Middle River MaDu featuring Co.,, which owned the mil property, has settled all the claim against the corporation and has
 trifle over $32, GOO in his possession A hearing had been sohed uled to com before Judge Futile at Hartford O Saturday in the matter of final allow apce to MT. Chase as receiver, and tn , money that remained after that WOul have to be paid over by the receiver l accordance with the agreement whio all the parties had signed. When tn 5 facts of the purported will were lai { before the judge it was agreed ths the matter be continued to Saturday 5 February 10, which will be after th hearing of the probate court for tt admission of the will to proba ! appointed for February 10th. Whel < the will has been and who has had 9 all these years is a question that 3 asked, and there is no answer.
 X was stated at the hearing at Hartto 9 that in 1899 Mrs. Converse visited u [ office of Gross, Hyde & Shipman S Hartford and had the draft of tl S will prepared. She did not at tn ( time execute the will, and it W S stated that the will itself was nev 2 executed. But in 1900 Mrs. Conve1 had a codicil drafted and this oodic q it was said, was executed. These 6 S the two papers Probate Judge Fi ( received. Whether the purported VI S by reason of it's not having be 1W formally executed is brought into lel . force and effect by force of the oodi
 is one of the legal questions tl
 promises to be fought out in the cou
 regardless of the decision of the juC
 of probate. Wm. Lee, son-in-law
 Mrs. Converse, by the purported W
 and codicil, is named as the execut
 Judge Futile was told at the hear
 in Hartford that it was not lear
 until recently as to who the sto
 holders of the Middle River Ma
 featuring Go. were. The stock c
 sisted of 1000 shares. Mrs. M
 Converse owned 664 of these and W
 Lee owned 332 and the remaining
 shares were unacoounted for. Un
 the agreement which had been drs
 and signed by all of the parties Lee was, after the receiver had I
 paid, to be paid pro rata shar
 what remained on his S32 shares A the remainder was to be paid t.
 Carl Converse, as administrator
 his mothers estate, to be divided
 him among her heirs as the
 provides. But the purported will ems oodioil of Mrs Converse, dispose ses her estate differently. With the o.J ception of few minor gifts her ef
 will go practically to the S
 people as though the estate
 intestate, but some will receive I
 than others should the said wi
 admitted to probate.