The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-22
AGED M|SER'S
WILL MISSING
S15,000,000 Disposed Of In
Document Yet Undiscovered
of Calvin Armory Stevens.

NEW AOnAs hpLA So. AASu3o
and business associates OF the &C.
centric Calvin Armory Stevens are
sure that he left will Distressing Of
a $4,000, 900 estate when he died in
Trinity Hospital, East New York.
March 20 last.
1t also was established that night
and day search for that important
document was begun Immediately
after his death and still Is being
prosecuted with undiminished zeal
The searchers are spurred on by
the hope that II a will is found some
of them, at least. will reap as reward
portion of the vast golden hoard
that the eccentric "Miser OF Broad
street" Is reputed to have piled up.
Capt. Caleb G.. Collins. who said
that he had been associated in bust
ness with Mr.. Stevens for thirty -four
years and shared an office with him
in the Lucky Building" NO. ~
Broad street, is positive that the aged
millionaire left a will. stevens lived
in the building for two years.
Capt. Collins said yesterday:
II am convinced that Mr.. stevens
executed a will before his death. He
told me he had signed such docu-
ment, and he also told otherA De-
lleVe the VIII Will Uc iouho' sh'a'S~
that it will show ample provision for
hi. wife and daughter as well as be-
quests to charities and individuals.
There is nothing besides the fam
of friends and business associates 10
Indicate the existence OF viii. IN
fact. from the official point OF view
there Is none"
The widow. Mrs. Jessie I. Stevens,
of 1856 Bay Twenty-seventh street.
Bensonhurst. filed petition to be
appointed guardian of her heiress
daughter. Kate Stevens Pagan. with tn"
surrogate OF Kings county. on March
26 last.
In her petition she says that he-
husband left personal property not
exceeding $4,000" and that his real
property was substantial but that tae
exact amount was unknown" She
deposed that a search for q will had
been unsuccessful
IsAPPOINTED GUARDIAN.
She was appointed guardian on
April Z, 1921. In her petition for $780,
900 q year for support and maint an
ance for her daughter, which resulted
in the surrogate allowing Sloooo
year on Wednesday, she stated:
your petitioners husband, X. -
Armory Stevens, died on March &c
last. leaving an estate consisting OF
very little personal property and
substantial amount of real property
nearly all of which Is unimproved
and unproductive. from which there
Is no income whatever and not liable
to be for quite q substantial period
of time.
The said infants (Mrs. Fagans)
father received during his life life
estate under the will Of his father
Calvin Stevens, to the principal OF
which said infant became entitled
on the death of her said father.
AS your petitioner Is Informed and
verify believes said Calvin stevens
estate, however. which amounts tc
more than 1880. il an individual one
consisting principally of real estate
in New York city. and the principal
of said estate In in the hands of trus
tees, one Of which Is the Fifth Az
enue Trust Company. of the Borough
of Manhattan. said infant is entitled
to at least one-half Of the said estate
and the annual income therefrom to
which she is entitled Is at least
$50, 900.
TRUSTEES WILL SUE.
said trustees are ABOUT 10 COM
mence suit for an accounting and a
construction of the will in the SUI
preme court, the result of which may
be to declare said infant entitled to
nearly one -half Of said estate instead
Of one-third."
The petition then goes on to state
that c. Armory Stevens used the in
come during his life Of this estate of
his father. and that he had mo other
substantial means of support He
was liberal in the support and main
tenance" of his daughter Kate, and
"sent her to expensive boarding
schools"
Captain Collins admitted that there
were three heirs, including Kate
Stevens, named in the will of the
ecentric's father. Who the other two
heirs were, however, neither he nor
John NJ. Hyde, agent for the Calvin
Stevens estate, would say.
She has been attending for the last
.aor opd half Miss Sayward's