Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 January 1897 — Page 7

A FAM0rs?FKJHT.

THE FAYERWEATHER WILL CASE

Now suit 11 the Willow's llxH'ulor-11? to .show to Whom tho Tr*»-v tutor l»avo tho Kosilu:iry

Kstiilo—Cost ot lh«' Litigation.

Kew York Tribune. Although the decibion of the Court of Appeals, handed down last Tuesday, closes one stage of the famous Fayerweather will contest, William Blaikie, counsel for the executor of the widow Mr. Fayerweather and kin, says it is not the linal stage by any means and tnat the last is not yet heard of a case that has occupied the courts and the public mind for more than six years. In that time most of the famous lawyers of New York, including, of course, many of the leaders cf the American bar, have been at one time or another in s?me capacity connected with the case.

In the Contest in the ^Surrogate's Court against admitting the will to probate, the widow of Mr. Fayerweather was represented by Frederic R. Coudert and Daniei (. Rollins,while the executors of the will were reprerented by John jE. Parsons, ex-Judge Arnoux and Ueneral Stewart L. Woodford.

Hut it was in the contest of the twenty or so colleges originally named in the will against the thirty-five or so more institutions to which the executors gave the residue of the property on the strength of the deed of gift—of which so much has been written—that the array of legal talent first appeared in all lis streugth. The list of well known lawyers who appeared in the case is sufficiently remarkable to be well worth setting down here. It is as follows: Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Bristow, ex-Governor Hoadley of Ohio, Edward Lauterbach, Alexander & Greene, counsel for Princeton Stephen P. Nash, ex-United States Judge William G. Choate, Joseph H. Choate, and the firm of«Evarts, Choate it lieaman, ex-Judge George G. Reynolds, of Brooklyn :-the firms of Butler, Stillinan &• Hubbard and Brownell it Lathrop. ex-Judge Horace Russell, exJudge Stoddard, of Connecticut: General Wager Swayne. the firms of Putney it Bishop, Thornton, Earle it Klendl, Chandler, Maxwell it Phillips, William B. Horn blower. Austin Abbott, the writer of legal books: Adams it Comstock and Hoppin and Talbot. James C. Carter appeared in the la6t stages of the first trial just linished, for the winning colleges, while Elihu Root acted for them as leading counsel.

In all the litigation that has followed since the admission of the will to probate, the widow and kin have been represented by only three lawyers, exUnited States Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont William Ulaikie and Colonel Edward C. James. The ex-Senator has taken no prominent part in the recent litigation, owing to family bereavement.

A.N KSTIMATK OK TUK COST. There has been so much talk about the large amount of money that all this litigation has taken from the estate left by Mr. Fayer weather that it will be a surprise to many to learn that William Blaikie, oue of the counsel for the contestants, estimates this sum at less than S20,000. Of this sum Mr. Blaikie estimates that the proceedings before the Surrogate's Court cost the estate about 52,500: those before the Special Term about 85,500 those before the General Term about Sit,500, and the last trial before the Court of Appeals about $5,000 more, making a total of considerably less than §20,000.

But this does not mean that this is all that the proceedings growing out of the will contest have cost. It means that this is all of the expenditure that will come out of the estate. The largest expenses must be paid by the^contebtants of the suit against the validity of the deed of gift. This deed of gift has been decided illegal, and the expenses contracted in defending it must be paid iy the unsuccessful parties to the suit. These expenses have been great. Mr. Blaikie estimates them at 3250,000. The winners in the litigation against the validity of the deed of gift, the twenty colleges originally mentioned in Mr. Fayerweather's will, will compel the executors to restore to the amount due them the amount they took from the estate to defend their case. The principal attorneys for the executors were the iaw firms of Parsons, Shepard it ()gden, and Arnoux, liitch it Woodford.

Mr. Blaikie and Colonel James now purpose to bring in the Supreme Court of New York county a suit in the name of John It. Reynolds, sole executor of Lucy Fayer weather, deceased, et al., against Henry B. Vaughn et al. When asked the object of this new action Mr. Blaikie said to a Tribune reporter:

OHJUCT OK THE SUIT.

Jt. is to see to whom Mr. Fayerweather gave his residuary estate of more than 83,000,000. This we profuse to du by uucanmiig the contents

of the last codicil lie made while he was conscious of what he was doing." "Do you mean the fifth corticil?" "No, 1 mean the fourth. He made five, the tifth, or last one on the day he died, November 15. lsiio the fourth one four days before, November 11, lB'.iO."' "You allege, then, tliat he was unfit to make the last one'.1" "So unfit that he misspelled his own lust name, omitting the fourth letter, as reference to the original, now on file in the Surrogate's office, w'U st Moieover, we have evidence that, as he wrote, his hand was ueiu oy another hand which guided it. The fourth codicil was burned by Vaughan, the executor, in the kitchen range two hours after the fifth was signed, and a little later Mr. Fayerweather ordered him out of the house. What was in the fourth codicil the Court of Appeals has discovered only so far as Vaughan saw fit to tell. What he told the court its own words will best relate. After tracing Mr. Fayerweather's steady intention as to his residue from the making of his will in 1884 till his death, November 15, 18'JO, tho Court of Appeals says: "He showed no change of intention when he*made the Butler codicil' (the fourth one, four days before his death), 'restoring the express trust he created by the tenth article' (which divided the residue equally among the twenty colleges), 'nor when he made his fourth codicil' (should be fifth), 'on the day he died.'

"Again referring to this last codicil the opinion says: 'About an hour after the execution of this codicil, Mr. Vaughan, by direction of Mr. Fayerweather, given by a nod of the head in response to questions, caused the Butler codicil to be destroyed uor did he fully disclose the contents of it until the trial of this action.' "Theinference from this," continued Mr. Blaikie, "is that he did disclose its contents at the trial. The facts shows that when asked what this burned codicil contained, be said he could not remember its contents, and when pressed he 6aid its purport was in substance to restore the tenth article of the will and give the residue of the estate to the executors, share and share alike.

THE COUKT ON MB. YAKIHAN. "Thus it will be seen that the Court bases the disposition of more than S3 000,000 upon the word of Vaughan. Under these circumstances he ought to be an extremely trustworthy witness. Is he so? Hear again the Court of Appeals itself: ''-"v "Mr. Vailghan, although without mercenary interest, was an interested party, under the temptation to so testify as to relieve himself from the, obligation to comply with the secret trust, and to justify his action in executing the deed of gift. He rested under the imputation of selfishly raising suspicious in the minds of the testator against Mr. Ritch, until he was himself made one of the legatees, when he suddenly became satisfied with Mr. Hitch's honesty and proclaimed that be was "all right." He was not eu-ti-ely candid either with Mr. Ritch or Mr. Fayerweather. He told Mr. Ritch on an important occasion that -the testator was too ill to be eeen, when that served his own purpose although he himself saw him almost every day on business of the utmost moment and lie did not deliver Mr. Hitch's honorable and specific letter to Mr. Fayerweather, when he had impliedly undertaken to do so. He did not produce the envelope unon which the memorandum as to "more institutions for benefit" is said to have been made until a late day nor did he swear, upon tlie trial before the Surrogate, to the conversation alleged to have been had with the testator during his last hours. He was contradicted by Miss Joyce, now Mrs. Reynolds, the plaintiff in the present action, who denied in effect that that conversation took place and his conduct toward that lady when he shook his fist in her face and said that he would spend the entire estate, together with his own fortune, if necessary, to succeed in the litigation then pending, shows the deep interest that he took in the will and the rights that he claimed under it. There was not much clearness of memory, frankness of disclosure or freedom from interest as to make his testimony conclusive. Under these circumstances the trial court was not bound by Mr. Vaughan'6 testimony, and the presumption is that the courts below rejected it so far as that presumotion is necessary to sustain the judgments that they rendered.

"The validity of this last-codicil will be attneked by us in the action we are about to institute. Our testimony to the effect that Mr. Fayerweather diif not know what he was doing when he signed it will be very strong. The witness who will testify that his hand was held when he signed it offered his testimony to us voluntarily. He is a well known Brooklyn man, vvhoEe name you wo'uld know should 1 speak it

TO TKLi. WHAT WAS IN IT.

"Then we shall make an effort to force Henry P. Vaughan, the executor, and Prescott Hall Butler, the lawyer who drew the burned codiei', !o tell

what was in it. Two physicians who witnessed, but did not read it, will testify that when it was being executed they heard Mr. Fayerweather say words implying that it gave the residue to the colleges only after other legacies had been paid. What those other lega.ies were is what we want to liud out. If Mr. Fayerweather wanted to leave his heirs money that they have not got they want it. They want what belongs to them, that is all. "When Prescott Hall Kutler was on the stand in the original suit in the Surrogate's Court, he was asked as to the contents of this burned codicil. He refused to answer, and before he could be compelled to do so, as he would have been, an adjournment was secured. This was before my connection with the case, and before the Court sat again Mr. Fayerweather's widow, who was sick in bed and in positive want, was driven to a compromise with the executors. Afterward, when she realized the consequences of her action, she regretted it, aQd gave the power of attorney under which all subsequent action has been taken."

Mr. BJ&kie then showed to the reporter the document in question, which was executed in 1892. "The suit we are about to begin," continued Mr. Blakie, "is practically to compel the twenty colleges which won the fight just concluded to show cause why, instead of getting the 83,000,^00 or so, they should not get only that sum minus what Mr. Fayerweather intended to give his widow and relatives. "Meanwhile the position of the three executors whose deed of gift has been declared invalid, is decidedly unpleasant, inasmuch as the heavy expenses under which they were placed to defend themselves, and which they met from the funds of the estate, must be refunded.''

SMARTSBURG.

Miss Mollie Hoover is some better. Sleigh riding is the order of the day. Mrs. John Lyons is on the sick list. The postoflice has been moved to Dan Goble's store.

Sunday school was attended by a large crowd last Sunday. Sherman Moore sold his fine mare last week to his brother Milton.

Mervin Shelton is talking of going into partnership with Dan Goble and sons.

Miss Blanche Wisehart spent Monday night with Walter Wisehart and family.

The meetings Saturday and Sunday nights by Rev. Kelly were attended by large crowds.

Rev. John Miller will preach hera at the Baptist church, Sunday, Feb. 14. Everyone invited to attend.

Mrs. Francis Lininngham and Mr. Kerns and wife, of Frankfort, are visiting Frank Catterlin and family.

BROWN'S VALLEY.

The sick are improving. Misses Mollie and Sallie Galey are on the sick list.

Stephen Allen went to Crawfordsville Monday on business. Harve Say Lor and George Brush, of New Market, were here Monday night.

Mrs. Rulfner and Silvie Williams were the guests of relatives at Marshall last week.

There is talk of two new stores being put up here. Brown's Valley will soon be in the push.

Milton Carrington and wife were guests of their son, Jesse, at Russellville last Thursday.

Thomas Rice and Miss Dee Patton attended the .play at Crawfordsville last Saturday night.

Mrs. Jennie Davis returned from Frankfort Friday after a week's visit with relatives there.

Stephen Allen is the proud father of a fine large boy. He says it is already howling for free silver.

Rev. Pratber will preach at the Haptist church st Crawfordsville the fifth Sunday in this month.

The people are hauling wood this week to keep from freezing, and it is as much as a bargain to do this, as cold as it is.

It is reported that a new 6aw mill is coming here in a short time from Alamo. We are glad to hear it, as a mill is much neaded at this place.

Errie and .Johnny Bayless gave a party Saturday night for their little schoolmates. There were several present and the little folks had a great time.

Charley Baldwin, of Judson, was the guest of Miss Ora Davis Saturday evening. He has just returned from Tennessee and brought Miss Ora a fine gold wateh chain.

The party at Uncle Israel Wilkinson's Tuesday night was one of the riost successful ones ever held around here. Over sixty people were present and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. It will long be remembered by all.

Frank Johnson's supper was a grand success last Friduy night. Clarence Burroughs received the prize for being the best speller, and Miss Etta Galey and Walter Penn received the prize for the best ciphering. There was a lar^ft crowd there but if the weather hud been favorable the house wouldn't have held all the people.

New Komi) to IndiutiapoliH mid Cleveland. The Monon Route has opened up a new through car route between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis and Cincinnati. A througn coach Cincinnati to Chicago via Indianapolis and Roachdale leaves Cincinnati daily at 8:30 a. in., passing Crawfordsville at 1:15 p. m. The Indianapolis and Cincinnati through coach passes Crawfordsville at 1:15 p. m., arrivincr at Indianapolis at 2:40 and Cincinnati at 0 m. This new through car route shortens the time between Crawfordsville and IndiATlUpuiirt diVW-tf

TIGER VALLEY.

The hog cholera has left us. Three more weeks of school here. Chas. Abbott is slowly improving. gjSeveral hobos passed through here Friday.

J. Walkup sold his corn to Hill Kise last week. Itruee Morris sold his fine hogs to A. Linn Monday.

J. M. Walkup and family spent Saturday in Boone. Rev. Riley begun meeting at Mace Monday night.

There is quite a demand for wood at Mace this week. W. Kise shipped a line car load of cattle last week.

The Flat Creek scribe for the Argus was here Sunday. Bruce Morris has turned his farm into a slaughter house.

Miss Moliie Bowman, of Boone, is visiting Zeb Armstrong. Bob Hatch and Henry Morris were in Darlington Saturday.

George Hugelheim says the play Saturday night was all O. lv. The party at Jim Galey's Friday night was well attended.

Protracted meeting closed at Kingsley Sunday with six additions. The Mace brass band is at a standstill for the want of rags to chew.

The new wooden bridge northeast of Mace is being pushed right along. Little Willie Swisher, of Ortli, is very much interested in the Hole estate.

Zack Walker and family spent last week visiting friends near North Salem.

Old man, if you want to dispose of your old plug horses go where they all go—to Mace.

Elmer Powel, one of our well-to-do farmers, was stricken down with paralysis last week.

There will be not less than three weddings in this vicinity as soon as the weather will permit.

Two of our young men attended the mask ball at Whitesville Saturday evening and report a good time.

There is talk of an oyster supper to be given at Kingsley chapel soon for the benefit of the Sunday school.

It is rumored that the play which was given at Gravelly Run some few weeks ago will be given at the Mace hall soon.

The fox drive last week was a failure on account of the captains not doing their duty. Two of the red lads got away and were caught near Cline&ville in the evening. There will be another drive soon.

In regard to the sayings of the Flat Creek scribe last week. He doubts very much the shipping of the 73,280 rabbits and says it would costSl,172 40 to shoot them. Mr. Flat Creeker, 43,000 of these rabbits were caught with ferrets. 2,780 were caught by dogs and the rest were shot. So you see that the expense wasn't so large after all. See, M. S Come over and we will have an argument,

RURAL ROADS~

There will be only about three weeks more of school. Rice Kennedy has a letter that is a curiosity in its way.

Miss Mollie Bowman returned to her home in Boone county, Sunday It is reported that John Finch has purchased the Hankins property.

Rev. Riley began a series of meetings at the Methodist cherch Monday night.

Fred Caster has been hauling his wheat to Toorntown dealers the past two weeks,

The Mace band is progressing nicely under the leadership of Prof. Claude Williamson.

The protracted meeting at Kingsley's Chapel closed Sunday night with six additions.

Rev. Smith filled his his regular appointment at the Christian church on the fourth Sunday.

Everett Linn is moving his farming implements to the Johnson farm, which he has rented.

James Patton and Sant Hipes are engaged in the butter business, selliug it in Crawfordsville from house to house.

The cold way Sunday was not merely a make believe. It was the real old thing, just in from an excursion over the hunting grounds of the Esquimaux, as numerous frozen ears, hands and feet attest.

Next summer a new iron bridge will be built over Walnut Fork noith of Ma?«. The old wooden bridge will be moved to the next ford east and rebuilt. Walnut Fork is a well bridged stream. From where it enters Montgomery county northeast of Ortli to where it joins Sugar Creek there will then be. thirteen bridges, some iron aud soon wooden.

Wednesday. Jan. 20, was the occasion of a grand fox hunt, covering the north half of Walnut and the south half of Franklin townships, and with the exception that no fox was caught it was a success and a most enjoyable affair. Parties from Darlington," Garfield, Shannoudale, Smart.sburg, Ortli, New Ross, Linnsburg and Mace made the crowd, and these with the help of guns and dogs made the racket. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, the sly Reynards doubtless chose to remain in his den with his family, rather than roam over the country throucrh storm and snow, tints exposing himself to a twofold danger.

WHITE CHURCH.

Vance Walls spent Sunday at John Rettinger's. The Teagarden corn husker is at Jim Harshbarger's this week.

The meetings have begun at this place by Elder I.J. Rosenberger. The meeting at Potato Creek closed Sunda'y night with no additions

Mrs. Minnie Maxwell has returned frem visiting her mother in Anderson. Mr. Wagner, of Pyrmont, is attending the meeting at this piace this week.

Silas Peterson sold a bunch of Hereford cattle last week to Geo. Kashner, of Darlington.

John Sharp and Ed Lough, of Ladoga, were in this vicinity Saturday night. Ed visited near Darlington.

DREAMLAND.

James and Harry Caphnger were here on business lust Friday. Grandpa Faust's grandson, Mr. Serface, ami wile have moved in with him.

We understand that a thriving debating society is progressing at North Union. lten Wreath has returned from a visit with homo lollss in Fountain county.

Joe Ituscnbark's brother Amos, of near Crawfordsville, spent a part ol' lust week with him.

Geo. Faust aud wife, of Crawfordsville, visited the family of Wm. Poynts Friday and Saturday.

Geo. and Mead Himes hired Hen Kessler it Co. to saw about forty cords of wood with their tuzz baw last week.

Joe and Charlie Busenb&rk. Charlie Everson, Frank Nickell and J. F. Caplinger will cut all the down timber in Mr. B.'s woods.

James Caplinger and family are comfortably settled in .their New Market home. This vicinity will miss them very much as they were model neighbors. ^Albert Kclsey died at Crawfordsville Friday and was burief at the Finley cemetery Saturday. Ho was about sixty years of age aud was widely known in this county as a fruit tree agent.

YOUNTSVILLE

B. O. Hay worth is doing well George Munns is on the sick list. A. C. Yount has recovered from a severe cold.

The protracted meeting closed Sunday night. The cold weather has stopped the Snyder mills.

C. Sweeney and George Hall will put up ice next week. Aunt Mary Ridge is the best preserved lady in the village for her age.

Clyde and Harry Watson froze their feet while coming to school Monday. The Ladies' Aid Society will meet at Mrs. Geo. Hopping's next Thursday for all day.

The superintendent, of the Yount Woolen Mills visited Chicago the first of the week.

James Galloway haB been confined to the house for the past week with tha prevailing bad cold and something like asthma.

Ed Fritz, our blacksmith, will move to Crawfordsville, having purchased the shop on the corner of Market and Green streets. He it a clever man and a good smith.

TEXAS.

Only four more weeks of school. Miss Nora Etter is on the sick list. James Myers was in Crawfordsville Thursday.

Georgo Dowden and family are all getting better of the measles. James Mvcrs aud Fora Davis spent Saturday and Sunday near Wesley.

Mrs. Eliza Harwood and Savannah Huffmire were in Kingman Saturday. John White and wife spent last Friday at Wallace McClure's, near Yountsville.

Floyd Merge and Mattie Michaels attended the party near Steam Corner last Friday nigt.

The pie supper at this place last Thursday night was well attended. SI 1.90 being taken in. Miss Gladys Ammerman received the prize for being the prettiest girl present, and Maximo Stinehouser received the pipe for being the ugliest man present.

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JyTOTlCETO NON-KKSI DRNTS. State of 1 ndlana. Montuoinery enmity: Id lln Montgomery Cim-uIi,Court,January term,

Henry Clements vs. Miirdalena Husonbark, llem-y ttusisnhark, Alfred liuseiilmrk. Sarah K. (iott, Mary M. Annie. Williw (Jott. Allco nu.Vdur, t.lie unknown IMrsof William iliison-!i-rk, deceased, the unknown heirs of John Busenhiirk, deceased, otal

Cullies now tho piaintill'. bv Thomas & h1f.MtiKt.on, his attorneys, anil lilts his complaint herein, together with an atlidavit that siiid defendants, Henry Ituseiitiiirk, Alfred ltusenljark, Mary M. Anfilo, Sawili B. (Iott, Mills (Jott. Alice Snyder, he unknown heirs of William Uu.-entiarli deceased, anil the unknown heirs of John Uiisenhnrk, deceased are non-residents ol thnStaieof Indiana: that, a eausuof action exist'* in favor of the plainill against said defendants and mat the object of the action is to enforce alien against real osiatu, whicii said lien Is for street improvements.

Nollcc Is therefore hereby given said defendants. that unless they lie arid amn-iir on he '-!Osh day of the March term of the Montgouii ry Circuit Court, hr ti.e year I8U7. tlie sumo being th l!:ird day of 'March. A 1).. 1B1J7, at. the court: house In Crawfordsville, in ilcl county rikI yt iito, unci niimvcr or dismur to said complaint, the siumi-will bo heard and deti-rminud in'their absence.

Witness my nnmo.ii.ntt thosenl of said court. ailixed at CrawforilsviUe, this dav of January, A. D., 1897.

WA I,LACK SPARKS. Cleric.

fyJOTICK TO HKIKS," CUKtHTOKS, KTC. In the matter^of the cBtate of Nathaniel Burnett, In tlit clrcult court., January term. 1807.

Not ice Is horoby given that, Milton Heruiernoil. HS administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Harnett, deceased, has presumed and filed ins accounts and vouchers in linal settlement of s.Liu ost.'ito. und thsit thosiuntj willconj© ui for the examination ami action of said cfrcult court on the 1Mb tJay tf Kobruai v, 18U7 at which tinio all heirs, creditors or legatees or said estate arc required to appear in sakl court, and t-how cause if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should ot be auprovi anrf the heirs and distributees of suiil c-tato are also notified to bo in said court at thct-mc aforesaid and mitlte proof of lialr-

Dated tliis 21s! dav or January, 1897 MILTON IIKNDHKSON, l_J-'.t Administrator.