Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-05-29
Jury Declares Miller
 Will Case Letter Forgery

Continued From Front Page) meet our east and west road with an expenditure of $1O5,000, which is also writing of the testator.
 After the attack on the will by counsel in behalf of the county Mrs. Wilson asked leave of the court to put new angle to the story before the jury. Not knowing what the wit ness might testify to counsel asked that the jury be excused until they could ascertain just what matters might go to the jury from the new evidence to be submitted. When the jury was excused Mrs. Wilson told story to the court. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, shesaid in 1882. Her mother, sometime prior to her birth had gone to Arizona where she met George Miller. Miller and the mother had married she said. She was the issue of this mating. Then according to her story the mother had gone back to Omaha, where witness was born. Sometime after that she accompanied her mother to Arizona, where Miller again lived with her mother. Returning to Omaha the mother died. When witness was four years of age, she was taken into the family of her uncle, a brother of the mothers. In 1913 she said Miller went to San Francisco, where witness met him and lodging house was purchased for her for $500. Later the witness met Miller in Globe, she said and again in California. She stated that Miller acknowledged that he was her father, but asked her not to bare the family skeleton unless she had to in securing his estate and it was only through the attack on the validity of the will that caused her at this time to put before the court her relationship to the testator.
 The court could not find it possible to allow this story to go before the jury. The thing at issue was the let ter will offered for probate a for gery or was it the last will and testa- ment of George Miller. No matter what the relationship of the parties the will was the only thing that mat tered.
 The cause was submitted to the jury in the evening of Tuesday last and Mrs. Wilson presented her side of the casf with considerable ability and counsel for the other side argued against it's probate on the ground that it was not either written or signed by George Miller; that it was in fact a clumsy forgery.
 The jury was out about 45 minutes and returned a verdict adjudging the paper offered by Mrs. Wilson as the will of Miller was not in the handwrit- ing of Miller.
 Wednesday morning the lost will of the late George Miller was admitted to probate and H. H. Watkins was named administrator. There is now more than $20,0OO in the estate and it will probably amount to $40,0O0 within the next year. By the terms of the lost will, this money is left to the schools of Mohave County.
 It will be remembered that George Miller died at the Mohave County hos pital on December 4, 1917, leaving his estate to the school fund of the coun- ty. Mrs. Wilson had been his nurse, but it was stated at the former trial that he had discharged her, but that she had not left town until after his death. Some days thereafter a wire came from her from Colfax, Califor- mia, asking that Miller's remains be shipped to that place for burial. The Elks lodge, of which Miller had been a member, refused to allow the body to be taken from the state and he was buried at Kingman. Miller had been a resident of this county for A years and was known intimately to many people still residing here, and the idea that he was married and had daugh- ter is secuted by all.
 Carl G. Krook and Robert Morrison who handled the case, though at al great disadvantage on account of Min nie Wilson not having an attorney, handled the case in an excellent man. ner.