The Washington times., 1919-11-08

-9O4, which named her as principal
beneficiary.
.'wIu Won't stand"
THAT Mr.. Shonts should leave
her an insurance policy which was
already made out to her; that he
should leave her the 100000 which
he Acknowledges he owed her as Il
legitimate debt, and that he s. =
leave her a picture which
ready her property, is odd. TIA =
ported will will not stand. Cer,l,n
reasons have already been stated be-
fore the surrogate by Mrs. Shonts re-
garding mental incompetency. Other
reasons, which i cannot disclose AZ
this time, will be provided to attack
the validity of any will which may
purport to supersede the 1904 docu-
ment."
The will filed yesterday provides
that Mr.. Shonts' daughters shall re-
ceiye $4,000 in trust, this amount to
be invested and re-invested by ex-
ecutors and the net income to ne
awarded in half-yearly installments
on January ! and July ! of each year.
The will mentions q former trust
fund of $4,000 "for each of my
daughters"
An apparent explanation Of hts
failure to designate the widow in his
will further than the acknowledged
Indebtedness of 100000. the $1,000
insurance policy and the portrait ap-
pears as follows:
"Agreemcnt with Wife,"
Having by an agreement made
in June, 1917, provided for my
wife, Milla d. Shonts, 1 make no fur
ther provision for her in this will ex-
cept that / hereby acknowledge an in
debtedness to my wife in the sum of
500, 900. payable within twelve months
after my death"
This agreement was interpreted by
attorneys to mean one entered into
when Mr.. and Mrs. Shonts decided to
live apart. Mrs. Shonts' attorneys
said their client could not be COM
municated with yesterday. and said
they did not know the stipulations,
financial or otherwise, or a separa-
ton agreement.
JeweIry to Young Thomas
Part of the will which makes Mrs.
Thomas the residuary legatee says:
81 give and bequeath all of the
jevelry given to me by my friend,
bert Thomas; to my grandson, Eman-
uel de chaulnes. my star sapphire
scarfpin; to the first-born son of my
daughter, Marguerite Amelia Bing-
ham, my pearl studs"
The amount Mrs. Thomas is to re-
ceive, attorneys said yesterday. Will
amount to not more than 100000
when all the Shonts debts are met
II was accepted by attorneys in the
case yesterday that Mrs. Shonts meant
Mrs. Thomas when she said in her
application Thursday before Surro-
gate Fowler that "a certain woman"
was intended to become a legatee un-
der the recent will"
Before the fling of the will Mrs.
Thomas was asked IL she knew of its
provisions, or II she were the person
alluded to as "the certain woman"
She replpied:
1T Is all a malicious lie. 1t Is viii
famous. | know nothing of a will
OF Mr.. Shonts. ] can't understand
how my name could have been
brought into any talk about It."
She Was an Actress.
Mrs. Thomas was formerly Amanda
raskie, an actress. Herbert franklin
homas, son of o. T. Thomas, a
oohhSfs Hlaffleo Ier nearly twenty
years ago. Friends of hers expressed
themselves as shocked that. IL should
baye been inferred that Mr.. Shonts
was Influenced" by her. as intimat-
ed in Mrs. Shonts' charges concerning
certain woman"
Mrs. Thomas, friends said, had
strictly a platonic association with
Mr.. Shonts, having been kind to him
when he was i'll and when his imme-
date family were absent from his
bedside.
The Shonts will creates trust fund
OF 100000 and directs that the in
come from this shall be paid as fol-
lcws: One-half to his sister, Eva
Marshall Shonts, Hinsdale Sanitarium
Hfnsdale, III; one-quarter each to
nieces, Mary Morrifeld and Jennie
Wifin. both of Chicago.