Evening star., 1948-10-18
.0nIyGrandcni|d
Refuses toFight
Patterson Will
Countess Daughter
Says Publisher Didn't
Owe Her Anything

Mrs. Ellen Pearson Arnold, only
granddaughter Of the late Mrs.
Eleanor Patterson, plans to take no
part in her mothers fight to break
Mrs. Patterson's will because It
don't think she (Mrs. Patterson)
owes me anything"
Mrs. Arnold eliminated herself
from the will contest in a statement
at her home in Santa Monica, Calf.
Il am not a direct heir of Mrs.
Patterson" she said. IT was never
dependent on her and I don't think
she owes me anything"
Mrs. Arnold's mother, Countess
Felicia Gizycka, is fighting to break
the will of the late Times-Herald
publisher, claiming that her mother
was OF unsound mind and that the
will was obtained by fraud, deceit,
undue influence and duress.
No Provision for Granddaughter.
In disposing of her $16,50O,O00
estate. Mrs. Patterson made no pro-
vision for her granddaughter, ex.
planning that she had made SUBJ
Stantial gift" to her during Mrs.
Patterson's lifetime.
This was APPARENTLY a reference to
a 280-acre etate near Gaithersburg,
Md, which was the subject of suit
in January, 1945.
AT that time, Mrs. Patterson said
she gave Columnist Drew Pearson
a deed as trustee of the estate in
September, 1886, on behalf of her
granddaughter. Mr.. Pearson is
Mrs. Arnold's father by his former
marriage to Countess Gizycka.
Mrs. Patterson charged that Mr..
Pearson had violated his trusteeship
by not operating the estate for the
use and benefit of Mrs. Arnold and
had not turned the property over to
her when she reached 10, as provided
in the deed.
Pearson Gave Up Property.
The suit also alleged that Mr..
Pearson had converted the estate to
commercial use as a dairy farm and
had deprived his daughter of the
use of the estate during the sum-
mer months by sending her to camp.
Mrs. Patterson asked the Mont.
gomery County Circuit Court to sell
the property, invest the proceeds
and turn over the income to her
granddaughter.
The granddaughter, who had
reached her 18th year six months
before the suit was started, filed an
answer in which she defended her
father. She said she visited the
farm whenever she wished, but that
IN the summer she liked to 60 see
her mother>or go to camp.
Later in January, 1945, Mr.. Pear.
son decided the estate to his daueh.
ter and the next day, she decided 1t
pack to him as trustee for her. The
property was decided finally to her
I'm December, l947, and the suit was
fdropped In March, 194s.
Mrs. Arnold, it was learned, re-
eelVed gifts of $1,000 year from her
grandmother in 1897, 1888, 1899 and
1910. ~
Necklace Was Returned.
MRS. Patterson, it was LEANED.
also tried to send her granddaueh.
Ter a necklace for a Christmas pres.
ent IN the early 1940s, but the neck.
lace was returned. This was, after
MRS. Pattersons undergraduates
break with Mr.. Pearson. His column
stopped appearing in the Tines
Herald early in 1912.
Repercussions of this break have
been reflected in the current efforts
OF Countess Gizycka to break her
mothers will
After c. B. Porter, former treas
urer OF the Times Herald. plunged
from sixth floor window of a
Clarksburg (W. VaD hotel on SEN
temoer IA, Mr.. Pearson called for a
1ull investigation of what he de-
scrloed as the strange circum-
stances" surrounding Mr.. Porter.
death. The official verdict was sui
eide. ' QUIZ
Mr.. Porter had been included in
Mrs. Patterson's will as one of eight
executives to inherit the Tines
Herald, but Mrs. Patterson deleted
MS name from her will after he left
her employ. The paper was left to
the other seven.