The diamond drill., 1919-05-10
OCCUPIED THE ENTIRE WEEK OF
THE IRON COUNTY COURT
SESSION RESUMES MAY 26
Judge Flanagan Adjourned Court
For Two Weeks When Remain
ing Cases viii be Heard

The attention OF the Iron county
court this week was monopolized b,
the McDermott will case. The only
additional business transacted was
the call of the calendar and the ad-
mitting to citizenship OF about TWEEN
ty-fve applicants.
The call of the calendar showed
that sixteen OF the jurors listed in
the panel were missing and when
the impaneling of jury came up II
was necessary 10 draw upon by
standers in the court room to COM
plete a jury.
Case Was Well Tried.
The court had set the McDermott
will case for hearing on the first day
OF the term when he granted an ad-
journment last term and, according
ly, that business was the first that the
court turned it's attention to after
the petitions for membership were
heard.
Our readers will remember the
complete report made in these col
umns last June OF the hearing held
before Probate Judge John o'Hara in
this city last summer. Judge O'Hara
was called in because Judge Rite
was one of the attorneys in the case
and was thus disqualified to pass up
on IT,
Judge 0'Hara, after listening TO
the testimony, decided that the will
presented for probate by EP. Lott OF
Iron River was the last will and tes
lament of the late Clarence McDer-
mott.
The attorneys for the McDermott
heirs in New York state appealed
from the decision OF the probate
court to the circuit court.
Witness Reyerses Herself.
The principal witness in the pro-
bate hearing was one Celia Bailey, a
telephone operator from Houston.
Tex, who came here last June and
testified that the signature to the
Will presented was her own; that she
had signed IL in a hotel at Houston
on an occasion when McDermott was
taken very i'll. She gave all OF the
details of the transaction so decided
" and intensively that no one doubt
I'd her statement
However, IL seems that I'm the in
erval between the hearing last June
md the present time, Miss Bailey re-
'ersed herself and made statement
which was presented in a deposition
n which she practically says that
he signature to the will is not her
'wn although she admits having sign
d some papers.
Munson, the other witness TO the
viii. could not be found.
1t is claimed that Miss Bailey
hanged her attitude upon represen- :
atoms concerning the procedure bf !
fairs here that were calculated 10 !
larm her and 10 which there was
o truth. Let this be as it may. the :
lct remains that she did change and {
hat the attorneys for Mr. Lott were
nable to get her to come TO Michigan I
'st term of court, although they q
lain that they sent her railroad fare n
Went 10 the Jury.
The attorneys for the McDermott $
eirs are Fred H. Abbott of this CITY. &
red w. Dudley and II. II. Corbin Of n
aratoga Springs. ~ Y. Mr.. Lott o
as represented by Clarence Dwyer T.
this city and Claude c. Rite 81 q
etroit.
Mr.. Corbin did the major portion q
the examining for the heirs and G
r. Dwyer for Lott.
There have been cases involving
rger things In money and property
ian the McDermott will case. but
ere has never been a case more 81
Irefully tried and the battle OF wits o
,tween Mr.. Dwyer and Mr.. Corbin
as watched with interest every min r
= by large number OF spectators. F
The jury was completed when adj
urnment time came on Monday. II