Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — YERKES SERVANTS’ CLAIM [ARTICLE]

YERKES SERVANTS’ CLAIM

Codicil Which Strikes Bequests From Will la to Be Opposed. Chicago, Oct. 1. —One of the last acts of Charles T. Yerkes, who left an estate estimated at 110,000,000, was to Strike from the number of his bequests 116,000 that had been left by will to nx of his servants. What purports to ba a codicil to his final testament has been filed. Arnold Held, Yerkes’ chauffeur in London, now a resident of Paris, was represented in court by Attorney William Mannhardt, who promised a stubborn fight. Held was left $5,000 by the original draft of the will, while his fellow servants were to have Benefited by $2,000 each.