The Washington times., 1936-07-17
BY FRANK CHAMBERLAIN
copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

Syndicate. 1nc.)
TORONTO, July ia blessed
event" that may win her half a
million dollars is anticipated at
the home of Mrs. Kathleen Nagle,
Leonard Avenue, next month.
Mrs. Nagle is one of the leading
contenders in the now-famouS
"Stork derby" Maternity Mara
thon devised by an eccentric
Toronto lawyer, Charles Vance
Millar, who willed 100000 to the
mother who should bring the
greatest number Of children into
the world in Toronto between
October 81; 1925, and october 81,
1885.
The child expected in August
will be Mrs. Nagle's 18th in the 10
years she has been married to
John Maggie, timid, shy, 35-year-old
mechanic who has been unem-
ployed for the last five years and
now assists his wife with her
household duties. The family has
been in quarantine for the last
two months, several of the chill
dren and finally Mrs. Nagle her
self suffering from scarlet fever.
Wants to Divide Cash
Mrs. Nagle today announced
that although she thought no
other Toronto mother had given
birth to more babies than she
had during the last 10 years, she
was perfectly willing" to sign a
compact with Mrs. Joseph Bag
nato, Mrs. Ambrose Harrison, Mrs.
Arthur Holli Timleck, Mrs. Mat
thew Kenny, Mrs. Gus Graziano
and Mrs. Steffano Darrigo, if all
agree to share the 100000 to be
awarded in this curious contest.
She said:
I wouldn't know what to do
with . half million dollars. I
would be satisfied with $50 a
week coming in. Then I could
50 ahead with my one ambition
to have food store. want
to do the cooking myself and let
the older girls learn to sell at
the counter"
But there are possible difficult
ties in the way of any plan to
share the Millar fortune, even If
all the mothers agreed. Legal
authorities point out that such an
agreement might be considered by
Ontario courts to be a move to
evade the intent of the will.
Battle Over Will
Some fear is still held by Mrs.
Nagle and Mrs. Matthew Kenny
that the Ontario government
might make another attempt to
eScheat the estate. Several years
ago Col. w. H. Price, then attor-
ney general of Ontario, introduced
into the Ontario legislature a bill
which aimed to escheat the estate
and turn the money over to the
University Of Toronto. Such bit
ter public protest was stirred up,
however, that he withdrew the
bill.
Friends of the late Charles
Vance Millar argued in upholding
Colonel Price, that Millar had on
several occasions said he intended
to leave a large part of his estate
to the university. But no such
clause was in his strange will,
and no later will was found.
Mrs. Nagle favors having the
present Liberal administration of
Ontario's affairs appoint referee
to confer with the three executors
of the Millar estate, the Toronto
General Trusts Corporation, the
National Trust Company and Roy
Sproatt. She said:
"a referee would see that JUS
tice was DONE"
EXECUTORS UNINTERESTED
And that's what is likely to hap
pen. The executors have shown
no evidence of interest individu-
ally in any of the mothers who
will contest for the half million
dollars. One of them said:
"Our job is to administer the
estate until October 81, 1896,
and to see that all the property