The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-14
FLAVIUS FITZGERALD
WILL IS FILED FOR
PROBATE and RECORD

GREENVILLE, o.. Sept. 14.-The
last will and testament of Flavlus j.
Fitzgerald, Civil war veteran, who
died at his home in TT. Jefferson re-
Gently. has been filed for probate and
record in Judge Younker's court.
The instrument provides for the
payment of all his just debts and
funeral expenses, and bequeaths to
his son, Charles Fitzgerald, the AZ
acre farm in Neave township. provid-
ing he pays to his sister, Cora Bell
Broughman, the sum of 81 600, and to
his wife. Lucy Florence Fitzgerald, he
bequeaths his house and lot in Fort
jefferson, his personal effects and all
the crops on the farm at the time of
his death. She is to pay all of his
debts at his decease.
An item in the will provides that
any OF the heirs who attempt to break
the will shall forfeit their share.
Lucy Florence Fitzgerald is named
as executrix of the will which was ex-
ecuted on Nov. Is, 1919. and witnessed
by Frank G. Longfellow and Dale R.
Warrick
Alvin Sears, who resides at Ithaca,
was tried in police court recently for
abusing his wife, the arrest having
been made upon complaint of his wife
TO Humane Officer Williams that he
had assaulted her Sears pleaded
guilty and Mayor Wright assessed a
fine of $40 and costs, $19.17 in all,
which Sears paid and was released
from custody
Aubrey Shields was arrested by Pa
trolman Mcclellan for assaulting Lon
Strobel, and Mayor Wright assessed a
fine and costs against Shields. which
was secured The trouble is alleged
to have started over a girl.
The damage case of Laura Bailey,
administrator of the estate of George
NJ Bailey VS. the P. c. G. and ST. L.
railway for $4,000 damages and l.
1886 for a truck and cream cans de-
stroyed early in January, 1921 when
a Panhandle passenger train crashed
into the truck at West Manchester, O.,
is assigned for hearing in common
pleas court Friday before Judge Tee.
garden and jury.
cottreII Funeral Held.
Funeral services over the remains
OF Erik M. Cottrell, second lieutenant
in the World war. killed in France
Oct. T. 1918, whose body was sent
home for burial, was held Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock from the resi-
dence of his parents, SCI Washington
Avenue, and was largely attended.
Rev. Youmans, pastor Of the Chris
tan church, delivered the sermon and
services were held under the auspices
of Erik Cottrell Post, American Legion
and the body given a military burial
in Greenville cemetery.
Answers Sheriff's Charges.
Grace M. Snuff, through her attor
neys Myers and Myers, has filed an
swer and cross-petition to her hus
bands divorce petition filed Sept.
Mrs. Snuff charges her husband
with extreme cruelty and says that
shortly before the birth of their child
he frequently stayed away from home
all night and she did not know where
he was.
She asks that his petition for di
vorce be denied, for alimony. for the
support of herself and child, for ar
absolute divorce and the custody oi
the child and for all other relief tc
which she may be entitled. st..
Postpone Meouiar Case.
The case of the State of Ohio VS..
Robert Meguiar assigned for hearing
Sept IA in common pleas court before
Judge Teegarden and a jury has beer
continued until the next term of court
at the request of Prosecutor JohI
Hoel, owing to the absence of mate
rial witnesses for the state. Meguial
is indicted for issuing check on ;