Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
EXPECT DISCLOSURE
IN MANLY MYSTERY
New Light on Murder May Be
Revealed in Battle for
Possession of Estate.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
SANTA FE, N Mex, March ~
Strange circumstances which marked
both the life and death of Arthur Roch-
fort Mandy, Taos recluse, found decap-
itated in his home last July 8, are ex-
pected to be more fully disclosed in the
Federal Court at Albuquerque today
with the opening of a legal battle for
possession of the 80-year-old English
mans $4,000 estate.
Meanwhile in Santa Fe the possibility
developed of a contest over the right
of Great Britain to demand the inter-
vention of the United States in solving
the mystery of Manbys death.
Further complicating the real life
mystery yarn was the arrest Monday OF
Terecita Ferguson, the woman who
Manly called in his diary 1.-The princess
of all my dreams" and the recovery in
her home of houseful of loot stolen
in a series of Taos robberies.
Terecita is at liberty under bond
charged with robbing and burning the
studio home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Younghunter, New York artists. George
Ferguson, Terecita's nephew, also charg-
ed with robbery, is being held in the
Taos Jail. Additional loot from the
Younghunter studio was found yeSter-
day in box buried In the yard Of Ter
ecfta'S home, at Canon.
Working on Gigantic Deals.
j. B. Manly of Denver, a brother of
the recluse, has announced that at the
time of his death the aged man was
helping Terecita establish a claim to
Missouri property valued at $40, 000, 600
on the basis of an old Spanish land
grant. Manby's private papers disclosed
he was always working on gigantic deals
He wrote In his diary in September
1916, that he was at that time owner
of 745, 100000 acres of land in New
Mexico and the Southwest. He recorded
this land had been secured through the
Taos Valley Land Irrigation Co. and
the Colonial Bond g. Security Co., which
he had organized.
The suit over the Mandy estate start
ing today at Albuquerque involves an
action by DR.. C. v. Thorne of New York
to recover on a $4,000 mortgage grant,
ed to Manly. The Probate Court at
Taos County has held that title to
Manhy'S property was vested by the
recluse in the Colonial Bond & Security
Co. DR.. Thorne contends he has a
prior claim. This situation is further
complicated by the announcement OF
living in England plan to bring suit
through the British foreign ONCE to
gain control of the security company.
Find Unpaid Note.
j. B. Mandy said his brother vested
his stock in Terecita Ferguson and his
property in the name of the company
to avoid paying q $4,000 breach Of
promise judgment to Miss Margaret
Waddell of Los Angeles. An unpaid
note of $4,000 from Terecita to Arthur
Mandy in exchange for her block of
stock in the company was found in
Manhy'S papers.
Terecita became president of the Co
Ionial Bond & Security Co. q few
days after Manby's death. Later ].
H. Crist became president, with Tere-
cita as secretary-treasurer. Crist has
contended that the United States has
no right to interfere in the Manly
death mystery for Great Britain, claim
ing Mandy was citizen Of the United
States.
Still another ramifcation of Manby's