The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-07-24
z PERSONS
FIGHT IN COURT
FOR RS3,O00,000.
Millionaire's Secret Love
Affair and Family
Quarrels Aired

WHEATON. H.. July 2i.-The
great American family drama. with
features highly melodramatic. is be-
ing unfoldcd In court room here.
Three million dollars Is the stake.
Twenty-Five persons scattered all
over the country are fighting for II.
Ancient scandals. family quarrels
Of go years age. a mil:ionalre's secret
love affair. sun-hRlf Indian; long
lost cousins and uncics. missing
man captured by the Germans. a for
tune won IN Austrailia's gold fields
and dissipatod In globe wanderings-
the Cowan viii Gaze bristles with all
these spectacular incidents and ad-
ventures.
Reads Like Novel
II will take three weeks probably
to present the mass Of evidence, read
ing like dime novel, In the four ap-
peal hearings Just opened In Du-
page county appellate court.
Three groups OF claimants are con-
testing the decision Of last April of
Probate Judge Rathjc In adjudging
nine cousins as lawful heirs OF the
estate Of William T.. Cowan. million
uire president Of the Standard oil Co,
The state administrators assessed
valuation of the estate was Sl.556,O4i.
Lawyers say the actual value is twice
that sum.
First OF the surprises In the new
hearing OF the case came when At
torney Ralph Peck disclosed that
proof OF mistaken identity has placed
seven more persons In line for the
estate.
Seven More Enter
They are children OF John Cuwan,
Ss-yehr-Old uncle of the dead million
airc.
Peck had traced the o.d man to the
west. But he was tho wrong one.
The real uncle had died five years
ago In st. Louis.
Now these Scven children, Peck ar
gues are In line for noarly 500. 900
each:
Mrs. Jane Cowan williams, st.
Louis.
Mrs. Mary cowan McAdams. Quin-
cy. Ill.
AIRS Sara Cowan Braincrd. Cleye-
land twlfe of II. j. BraincrdD
Joseph Peter Cowan. st. Louis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cowan Teigraver.
st. Louis.
Miss Catherine Il. Cowan. Chicagn.
James William Cowan. missing sail
or last heard OF under an assumed
name in "a German prison camp.
A separate appeal Is being prosccut-
cd by David Henry Cowan OF Canal
WincheUtCr, o.. who claims to- be "a
cousin OF the deceased.
Another appeal Is by william Cow
an LOwcry "A half-breed Indian. who
claims to be tho only son and heir
to the millionaire. LOwcry lives on
farm near Ncelcyville. Mo. Attorney
Paul Kuhn, representing Lowery, has
revealed an alleged romance Of the
oil maEnate more than 40 years ago
with Anna l>owery. beautiful Indian
actress. Lowery claims to be their
son.
COusins right Cnsc
These cousins of Cowan. Rdjudged
rlghtful heirs. are fighting the APP
peals:
william SaXton. Eagle. Mich.
Whittier Saxton. Grand Lodge, Mich.
Charles Edward saxton. Bannfstcr,
Mich.
Mrs. Caroline saxton Hart Grand
Lodge, Mich.
Mrs. Birdella sax,on Colby, CadI-
lac. Mich.
Henry $. stillwcll. Glovcrsville. y.
Y.
william $. stIllwell, Springfield,
Mass. ~
Threr heirs Of Mrs. Helen shad-
bolt, Plymouth, Wis.
Three heirs OF JudsOn Phelps, De-
troit.
To complicate matters further. 1t
Is rumored that everybody IL wrong
in bolieveing the oil millionaire left
no will. The spectacular announcement
OF a. secret will Is "a possibility during
the hearing.