People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — HIS WILL FILED. [ARTICLE]

HIS WILL FILED.

Jay Gould’s Lost Testament Placed to tha Hands of the Proper Aathoritirs—lt Disposes of #72,ooo,ooo—Ths Bequests Made. New York, Dec. 18. —A will containing six thousand words and disposing of $72,000,000 worth of property was i filed for probate in Snrrogate Ransom’s court Monday afternoon by Judge ■ John F. Dillon. It was Shat of the ; late Jay Gould. Judge Dillon stated l that the original documents contained nothing new or additional to the facts that have been already | published. Probate Clerk Tierney at once issued citations to the heirs and next of kin for the probate of the will which are made returnable the latter part of this month. An affidavit of the executors, George J. Gould, Helen M. Gould, Edwin and Howard Gonld, was filed with Probate Clerk Tierney and shows the value of the real estate which Mr. Gould left in this state to be $2,000,000, and the value of the.personal property in this state left by him to be $70,000,000. The affidavit shows those who have an interest in the estate and what their interest consists of. They are as follows: Sarah B. Northrop, *25,000, a life annuity of *2,(100 and a life estate in real estate of the value of 115,030. Ida, Mary G. and Alice Northrop, contingent interest under the will, the value of which is not given. Anna G. Hough, *26,000 and a life annuity of •2,000. Elizabeth Polen, *25,000 and a lije annuity of •2,000. Abraham Gould, *28,000 and a life annuity of •*,OOO. Helen M. Gould, personal property of the estimated value of *IOO,OOO and M.OOO a month during the minority of her infant brothers and sisters. The value of this devise is put at •250,000. Edwin Gould, the value of his devise in put at •80,000. Jay Gould, Jr., is given (600,000, George J. Gould, cash, bonds and stock of the par value of *5,000,000, less the amount advanced for the purchase of the house, 857 Fifth avenue. Klngdon, Marjorie G., Helen V., chil*en of George J. Gould, have a contlngent’.lnterest In the will, the value of which is not mentioned. The children—George J., Edwin, Helen M., Howard, Anna and Frank J. Gould—oil have s life Interest in the residue of the estate, the value of which Is not mentioned. The provisions of the will are practically the same as those in the synopsis heretofore published in these dispatches