Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — WILL NOW CLOSE UP GIFFORD ESTATE [ARTICLE]

WILL NOW CLOSE UP GIFFORD ESTATE

Executor Says Settlement of Burris Case Will Make It Possible to Settle Bequests. George H. Gdfford, executor of the will of the late B. J.' Gifford, was asked what was now proposed to do in the settlement of the estate and replied that during the time the Burris case was in the courts his hands were tied and that nothing could be done looking to the. sale of the land or the settlement of the various provisions of the will. Mr. Gdfford said to the reporter for The Republican that he wished it would be said for him that he did not regard the suit brought by Regina Burris as having any merit at all and that there never was a chance to secure a judgment as asked, but that the compromise was entered into so that the estate could be settled. Mr. Gifford said that he felt that he had (been sandbagged pure and simple and he ddd not mince words when he said it. Benjamin J. Gifford died somewha more than two years ago and aside from the sale of the railroad and the applying of the money thus secured towaird discharging some of the indebtedness little had been done to close up the estate. The erecutor, however, proposed now to take an active program now toward securing for the many persons named in the will the payment of the sums left to them.