Daily ritisl) PAGES 9 TO 14. YEAR 17- NOU. 234 Zetes?® Bhoto or Melly creer CURVY RIG + HR Green, rom ure lgken 15 » TUNGer Curdlood Ee, i 1 onsande" of persons scat tored all over this country, possibly all over the weld, the anwouncement that Hetty Howland Robinson Green, the and 'richest of Ameri en's wonten financiers, has called her son to the management of her pro perty, has un stronger interest than that which all of us feel in the affnirs of so conspionons figure, The dropping of the reins is taken to in dicate falling: powers in this remark ahle woman, and, in spite of he frugal and abstemious habits and the fact that she comes of lowz-Tived tock thut hee life is nearing its close. To the rang referred To, Mes. Green's death is ol vastly more covsequence than any act of hers living, for will velgast un fortune of some million and a nll of dollars for final division among thew -a fortune secured to them nearly 50 years ago Hy a New Bedford maiden Jady in a will, fhe contest of whieh hy Mrs, Green con stitutod - the strangest and most my sterious ease of the kind ever foughi in the 'United States courts, Just who will He the beneficiaties under this will when Mrs. Green dies nobody inthis world knows. The di vidon of the fortune will prove one of the most difficult tasks ever undertak- en by lawyers. Until Mes. Groen dies no one enn tell even, the basis on which the division will be made, Not only the date of Mrs, Green's passing away, but oven the hour and minute may be an issue of the most vital 3 rtante, requiring careful examina: anel Scealy the nicest caleula- tions of dillerences in time. The ty (n question is part of the estate of Sylvia Ann Howland, Hetty Green's aunt, who died a ter in New Hediond in the year Mise aunking a a large manber of vate and loft Lp i of her estate to tire trustees, who wore to adorns ter it and, Suri the life of her niece, income. Un her I wax to be divid nis of dand, Sylvia Ann Howe ather, Who died in 188, fly 13 children, all of whom and reared families; and with these 13 children to start from, it anay' tendily be seen that the hneal dewcendants y moarly on century : old Gideon, would under the ill, have kept run of many fof 4 JA, yeposing it the safes of are family ¢ which are Jrhoed the descent Pell - bequests, Mise How: TED Or Tnrreay KI NGSTON, Pwr Lots Rodinsor?, lhe Father af Jelly Greer } = mn y gy 7 pm Lepr Bex A LISP CREE Burlbplsce as fixed Ly rer Som | Zalw tind IR Greer families © from Gideyn Howland. But there are branches which have dropped omt of sight entimoly, ard nobody has a complete list of the heirs. In all the i no more that which inv her aunt Sylvia; will, dishosine of an estatd of than $2,000,000, xn of property in those days before lon fortunes became so common; Hetty Green's attempy to break will and substitute in place an other which she produced after her aunt's death, and which the trusiees maintained was a forged document. Monthe were spent' in the preparation of evidence bearing on this point, and thousands of dollars were expended for ox witoesse photisFraphic re productions of of Sylvia Ann Howland and their enlargement. But the issue was never sdetermined, the detipion of the court sustaining the original will and rejecting that produced by Hetty Green, Heing baséd a point of law. ol papulous nn there than with curious more amount swols and the Hetty Gro chapter relations life of romant 1 olves har the Tater's immense ite int ures an ft is inter Mrs phn dation of stockings, of and ting to note, in view proverbial frugality that the foun. fortune rested on silk back in the eighteenth Howland, great-grahd- set to work {0 make amassing of the first srentest difioulty, In those days many schooners plied he tween the dtates and the West Indies in the merchant service, and the sail ors wore silk stockings inte port on their return rips, Old Isaac Howlan hefught - these, washed and - ironed them; and "sold them at a good. pro- That gave him his start: and when oy died in 1833 hee fortune was a forge one for those times. sane Howland's granddaughter, Sylvia Ann Howlahd, was possessed of a fortune of over $2,000,000; a pro- ditions sam for a childléss woinan of simple tastes diving in a country town. Hetty Green as a girl spent much of her time with her puat Sylvia: As to whether she entertained any real afs feetion for her, there is a conflict of t2stimony. Certainly Hetty professed such affection after her aunt's death, claiming that it was recijpocated oy her amnt, aad that they had made wild in' cach other's favor. Ax to the relations between Hetty and he father, Fdward Mott Robinson, there i no uncertainty. They we Jar from . Ciroen's mode of living Way erntury, fsane futher betty, 1 fortune, The 2000 wax bis of ~poatdinl and a local decision hi whieh 3 'Robinson. died in 198%. A new oatri-hi, Me. Robinson camo into the possession to Hetty Rer anni Seka, who maintained hat the Howland money shold ha teen in the Howland fami hv, Ws only ehild, about on wmillioh ats avd some S5.000,000 jie ib be * haps Tho will' was » Hetbv. of a Mrpe share of the Bolland fort Sve wae distasteful both a leaving Hetty, that But in seite, Lareen, Stites to perform claimed her anit had wade I which was embodied in a sl produced a wint's last will and testament. Phis will left all the property to Hetty, and contained the following interesting declaration, referred to in the subsequent litigation as the "se cond page' of the will : Be it remembered that 1, Sylvia Ann Howland, of New Bedford; in county of Bristol, Wo hereby make, publish ard declare this, the second page of this "will and testament, on the eleventh of January, in manner fol lowing : to wit, hereby revoking all wills made. by me before or after this one--I give this will to my niece, to show il there appears a will made without notifving her, and without returning her will to her through illomas Mandell as I have promised to do, I implore the judde to de cide in favor of this will, nothing would induce to make a will un- favorable to wy niece; but being ill and afraid if any of my earetakers indisted on my making a will to re fuse, they might leave or be an: ory, and knowing my niece had this wil to show, my niece fearing also after she went away--I hearing but one side might feel hart at what they might say of her, as they tried to make trouble by not telling the truth to me, when she wags here even herself. I give this will to my nicce to show I absolutely necessary to have it, to wpear against another will foune after my death. 1 wish her to show hiv will, made when I am in good health for me; and my old. torn will made on' the fourth of March, in ho your of aur Lord one thousand dght hundred and fifty, to show also Ao proof that it bas been my lfetiny wish for her to have . my property. I sherefore give my property to my niece as freely as my father gave it to me. { have 'promisad him once, and my sister a number of times, to give it '0 her, all excepting about one hun rid thousand dollars in presents to my friends and relatives. In witness chateof I have dot tharetd my = hand and" seal, this eleventh day of Janu wi in the year of our Lord one hoyisand eight hundred and sixty-two. (Signed) SYLVIA ANN' HOWLAND, and a seal. Such was the curious, ropbling, in soberent doswent on which Hetty Make Every Day a bright day, by objection and made no contest, after the will had been confirmed the Supreme M us=achu- she and 1 ward . H. brought United Court trustees gh her will hor Court the whieh to compe oorent with Hi which being 3 made Be ns ONT ARIO, SATU RDAY, TAZRLCAS CLES TIWONAY PLACER Steels lew Bedrord J5:1d Lo De lleliy: Greens Oirihplace aunt's the claim Green based her claim on her fortune. The trustees fouzht groundsc-first, that the between Hetty and her had not beew so cordial ied the latter to leave all her erty; and the signature to thi md page a forgery igation which followed is in the most remarkable of the law. Ax niercly evidener was in the form tions, little of it was published in the newspapers, and is now available only in the transeript of the record, a vol ure of over 1,000 closely printed pigs. The trastees spent $150,0000 in defend ing the will, und the firht lasted through the better park of two venrs. Tha chief strugyle was ovr the gen. uinepess of the sizonture already re ferved to. The conflict of expert testi nony was extraordinary, demonstrat ing how completely scientific opinion may differ. Herve were three signatures of Sylvia Ana Howland, one admftted- ly genuine. But it appeared on super imposing the other © two over this, that the covering was so evact, letter ior letter, stroke for stroke, and that not merely this covering existed, gether with identity the letters and the tha locality on the paper and the dis tanee of the sig rng tures from the mar. gins so neatly coincided,' that the de- fendants, supported by some of the best experts in the country, hrought forward the theory that this coincid- ence was the result, not of chance, wit of design, and that the dowbiful siunatures had been forged by tracing them over the genuine. Wall street and State their most dminent judges of sigma- tures to support this theory. Com- mercial colleges sent their presidents and their teachers of handwriting. The Const Survey sent its most eminent members from Washington either to sustain or combat the hypothesis of » defense. Recourse was had to the magnifying glass, to laboriously trac. ed enlargements, to photographic cop- ies. Learned chemists testified as to the composition of the mks, Lithographers and engravers added the weirht of their testimony to one side or the pther. Harvard University was reprosenied by three of its most distivguished savanis--Professor Alex- an fet Agassiz, Dr. Oliver Wendell Hol. mes and Professor Benjamin Peirce, the famous mathematic ian. Professor Peirce's testimony was per- haps toe most astounding of any, Jualifying as an expert on the doe time of chances, he stated with posi- ive. convietion that the coincidence between the admittedly genuine signa- ure of Sylvia Ann Howland and the douitful one could not oecur, except by design, once in two thousand, six hundred and sixty-six millions of mil- lions of millions of times, or 2,666, 000 L600,060,000_ 000,000, "This num ber," the witness stated, "far trans cends human experience. So vast an improbability is prastically am' im possibility. Such evanescent shadows of probability cafifol' belony to actu- al life. They are unimaginably less than those feast things which the law earcs pot for," And then, as if this were not improbability enough the witness stated tha eonsidesing the coincidence of the location of the sig. nature on the page. . © would be increased fen and possibly a hundred fold. Yet the plaintiff met this apparent- iy insurmountable testimony by pro- ducing a number of cheeks which had been drawn. by President John Qainey Adame. which an even greater toincidence than those of Sylvia Aen Howland signatures. How nu jury "would have decided this on two res aunt as the second, o-called The lit many re in the all the deposi lations Sylvia to have forme; that proj ' 'was spect s annal of wor I», but that street gent 1 th various of law it was held that Het interesting bewildering issue will or he on Ht never was con sidered hy judge, or jury. Om a poiet v Green's own testimony was the side snppoct of plaintifi's ease, and that # it was will wns reject. OCTOBER ton, is visiting at James Aylesworth's 8. of dollars soon as Hetty Green should die. Some of these days the newspapers of the world will announce the death bf America's most noted woman finan. cier. Out of the millions who read that announcement thousands will get ready to present their claims to the Sylvia Ann Howland trust, Geanolo- will be searched, the old family be brought out and sto of attorneys will Ix and at goodness and 80 gies Bibles will died, an army pressed into service; knows what expense and trouble labor the fortune kept intact for nearly fifty years will at least be dis tributed in accordance with the terms of 'Sylvia Ann Howland's will. $600. FOR GOOD ROAD, In Portland Township--Getting FPro- vincial Aid. Harrowsmith, Ovt. 3. -- Portland township council met to-day. Members present : Reeve Trousdale, Councillors Asselstine, McKeever and Redmond. Minutes of last meeting confirmed. Moved, Redmond-McKeever, that Frank Wallace be authorized to keep the covering on Mud Creek bridge, on the Portland road, near Murvale, in re pair, so as to be safe for travel, but by so. doing this township assumes no liabilities of Portland toll road com- pany or mspongibility for accidents on said bridge. On motion, McKeever Redmond, by-law No, 512, received first and second reading, providing, for assistance by the legislative assembly for the improvement of the following roads designated in by-law: 1, road from . Petworth schoolhouse, to the west end of Manson's * bridge, con. 7., $200; 2, road from Alexander Thomp son's to Loughboro boundary, don. £200; 3, road from Loughboro boun dary, con. 14, to lot 8, con. 5, $200, On motion, McKeever-Redmond, Ed- ward Jackson and gon were given con tract for repairing wall under town. | ship hall, they to furnish all mafer- ial for said work. Price, 88. As counts paid : $149.50, C. W. Martin, pay sheet, balance work, con. 10; $15, C. W. Martin, services commissioner, Se ptember; $11.91, John Deline, plank for repairing walks, Harrowsmith; $35, James McKim, pair jaws for crusher; 85, Thomas A. Kerr, costs court of revision voters' list; $43.75, Thomas A. Kerr, one-quarter year's salary, clerk and treasurer; 3206.75, ©. W. Martin, pay list, Bellrock bridge, three quarters to be paid by county: $21, C. - Martin, pay list, division 2, $25 " W. Martin, cement, sand, freight al for the manufacture of tile; $3, John Babeock, two days' work, repairing road, con. 9; 88, J. Mills and wife, charity. On motion, McKeevey Redmond, council adjourned to meet in Harrowsmith the first Mon- day of November, at 1:30 p.m. Bath's New School Principal, Bath, Oct. 7.---Mr 1 Dunlop, of Rock « land, the new school incipal, oH on Friday last to take charge. E. N. Hancock, conducting the school ai the principal arrived, hae returned # Kingston, to resume his studies at Queen's University, Wes. and Miss Hogle, left, on Monday last to spend the winter with friends in Chicago, I, The steamer Glenellan, loft here, on Wednesday night, after loading . over 4 0 tons of ¥. Ars. Gearge Frisk and children, of iy Bre visiting at A. Irish's. Mrs, Hitehins, of Bos rns At Brewer's Mills, Brewer's Mills, Oct. 6. Many here attended the fair in Delta on Wednesday. Recent viditors: Mee. James Boyle, Gananogoe, at James Smith's; P. Murray, Bufisio, N.Y. with his parents, r, and Mra, 3 Murray. Mex. 2. Fodey, Warburton, retarned home on Wednesday, acrom' from . A _SECOND PERUNA A WONDERFUL BOON IN MY OLD AGE. » 000000000000 AAA MRS. M ALA i Surly Approves of Pé-ru-na and Man-a-lin "for Riiner and Bowel Trouble © 00000 . 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