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| WILL BREAKERS.
I fierce legal struggles for
DEAD MEN’S WEALTH.
Lawyers Who Feed Fat on Biir
Estates in Litigation Divert
ing; Millions From the Pur
poses Its Owners Intended.
A New York correspondent, writing
to the Pittsburgh Dirpatch, says: Sur
rogate Rollins had 334 wills contested
before him in his three years’ term. He
admitted all but fifty of them. It would
be impossible to estimate the amount of
money involved in these contests, but
$500,000,000 would not over estimate it,
for they include the estate of Samuel J.
Tilden, the $10,000,000 of James Hokes,
the $11,000,000 of Jesse Hoyt, the $2,-
5000,000 of Louis Hamer.sly, the $5,000,-
009 of Sarah Burr, and tbe $3,000,000 of
Paran Steven, besides the great fortunes
of A. T. Stewart and his widow.
Twenty-five men are paid by the city to
look after the proper distribution of
dead men's estates, according to thgir
i wishes, but Surrogate Hollins said there
ought to be 100 employed in the work,
growing greater every day.
Scarcely half a dozen wealthy men, or
women either, for that matter, have died
here in the past ten years without leav
ing a legacy of endless litigation among
their heirs. The late William 11. Van
derbilt and Miss Catherine Wolfe are the
only exceptions I recall at present. Even
Miss Wolfe, though, had to make the
terms of her will in such explicit and
iron-clad terms that it was plain that she
feared the humiliation of a contest be
fore the Surrogate. In fact, it has grown
to be the prerogative of kinship to grab
for other people's money, and the flimsiest
pretext serves the purpose, even if it only
results in bagging a few thousands for
hush money and counsel fees.
What a revelation there would be for
the rich men of the land if they could
come back to earth and listen to the fight
over the results of their toil! Here’s A.
T. Stewart, the greatest dry goods mer
chant this city ever saw, pictured as
mentally incapable of disposing of the ;
millions he had gathered; his widow is
in her grave less than a year before two
dozen heirs are pounding on the doors of
the law courts to upset her bequests;
Jesse Hoyt’s $11,0(10,(100 have opened
the doors of his family closet, and the
skeleton stalks out in the glare of
publicity; Sarah Burr died four years
ago, but her $5,000,000 were made the
object of bitter litigation, and her ec
centricities paraded before the world.
Samuel J. Tilden, keen lawyer as he
was, made a will that his nephews are
determined to break, and his great
scheme for a free public library here is
thus postponed, and perhaps baffled.
The Paran Stevens ease was only settled
permanently a short while ago after 15
years of litigation and personal abuse of
the worst sort from the widow to her son
in-law, and vice versa. Paran Stevens
was one of our great Bonifaces, and his
estate still holdsan interest in the Fifth
Avenue and Victoria Hotels here and
similar property in Boston. He died in
1869, leaving his widow, a married
daughter, and son-in-law to manage his
estate and divide the property among
about twenty heirs. Mrs. Stevens and
her son-in-law never did get on together,
and the breach widened after the old
man died. Early in 1872 she denounced
him and began suit to have him removed
as executor. Mrs. Stevens, it will lie
remembered, created a sensation at New
port Ihst summer by entertaining the
Duke of Marlborough. Her fight to oust
Her son-in law cost $250,000 at least.
Who of those who knew Daniel B.
Lydrly would have thought that he
would be put. forward by his brothers
after death as a subject of undue influ
ence/ He was as sane as any many that
ever lived, and yet he was hardly in his
grave before his brothers the ones who
made themselves notorious by accepting
$12,000 from Sharp declared war upon
his widow for his estate. The ludicrous
part ot the story is that Liddy hadn’t a
penny until he married Madame Con
nolly, the famous dressmaker here, who
not only owned all the Long Branch
property but had a good sized bank ac
count as well. Os course that wealth
greatly increased under Mr. kiddy’s
shrewd management, but where would
he have been if he had not married
thousands? Now his brothers have be
gun a light to keep those thousands on
their side of the hou e, and they declare
the will bogus that gives back to the
widow the property that was originally
hers.
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An array of high-priced legal talent
I has begun a long contest over the Widow
Stewart’s estate, which ex-.ludge Hilton
has rightfully or wrongfully appropri
ated. Mrs. Stewart's niece is not satis
fied with her $50,000, but wants the will
set aside as having been fraudulently ob
r tained; one of the nephews, a brother of
the present contestant, entered suit for
the same purpose, though on different
grounds, six months ago. It would not
surprise many people if the two Stewart
wills were still in litigation after Judge
’ Hilton’s death, for he is getting on in
. years now. Meanwhile the big white
marble mansion at Fifth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street is closely curtained
r and shuttered, and no one goes in or out
but the old butler. It is literally a house
'of death—a marble grave. How every
dream of A. T. Stewart's later days has
been dissipated. His marble mansion is
nothing but a gloomy tomb, the work
ing women’s home that he planned and .
set afloat thousands for has been turned '
into a fashionable hotel, in which a single
meal costs as much as he meant to charge
for a full week’s board. His scheme for
a grand cathedral seat and educational
centre at Garden City is all but a flat
failure, and the dry goods house that
he made known the world over is now
merely a reminiscence. Even his bones,
weary after a lifetime of drudgery, are
hidden no one knows where.
There is rest in the grave for the
weary, but not for the wealthy.
A Frightful Position.
Dr. Robinson, late of the Guion steam
ship Arizona, who has returned from
Liverpool to settle in New York, reports !
a most singular accident which occurred i
on the great steamer on her last outward
trip.
Among the passengers was an amateur
ventriloquist, whose antics served to help
pass the time very pleasantly for those
who were not afflicted with the horrors
of a first day’s sea-sickness. The steamer
had hardly passed Sandy Hook when the
engineers heard terrible shrieks coming j
from the direction of the engine-room ■
pit. A thorough search finally convinced '
them that they were the victims of the
ventriloquist’s jokes and they stopped
search.
On the second day out, xvhile the sec
ond engineer was inspecting the maehin- ‘
ery, he noticed what seemed to be a sack
lying directly under the eccentrics in the
pit of the engine room. The great ec
centrics were whirling over the object at
the rate of sixty revolutions per minute.
On closer examination the sack proved
to be a man lying on his back. The, en
gines were stopped, the Arizona came to
a standstill and with the aid of a rope
the man was dragged from his perilous
position.
He was still alive, but his left arm was
crushed to a jelly by the terrible blows
from the eccentrics. lie had crawled
into the engine-room before the steamer
left her dock and lay there facing death
for fully forty-eight hours. The eccen
trics came whirling down within eight
inches of his face and the slightest
movement in any direction meant certain
death. So he lay there xvhile the power
ful eccentrics continued to mash his arm
with clockwork regularity.
The man gave his name as Henry
Smith, from New York, but refused to
say anything fuither about himself. Dr.
Robinson amputated what xvas left of
his arm.
The first man to leave the ship at
Liverpool was the stowaway, who, with
his bundle under his remaining arm,
smiled a hearty good-by at the doctor,
I saying he was going to a hospital. He
■ passed over the gang plank and was lost
in the crowd.—. Veto LoA Journal.
The Wily Red Man.
' Near Montour, la., is an Indian reser
vation, whore a large number of the Sac
and Fox tribes find a home. Last
Thursday their annuity was paid.
Fifteen thousand dollars in gold was
distributed -each member of the tribe
receiving exactly $39.99 as his or her
share. In order to avoid the trouble of
making change a proposition was made
to some of the chiefs to pay them $lO
and for them to return the odd penny.
This they refused to do. They are ex
ceedingly suspicious of the Government
agents and demanded the exact change.
The suspicion seems to be mutual, for the
> agent, instead of paying out the money,
I gave each Indian a cheek, after which
.be was escorted tv a bank, where the
wact change was handed to him. This
was done to prevent the wily Indian
from getting two annuities—the strong
family resemblance making that trick
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