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Show I TAIN A FORTUNE. Mr. and Mrs. Charles! j R. Slingsby and baby, which an English I court has declared to be their son, and therefore lheir to $500,000, if' o 'S'i'-l' ft" " v'i .,.-,. A I, 'AY ui -' f ; 1 : Court Calls Attention to ! Striking Likeness to Father Fath-er and Mother. LONDON, Feb. 3, 11:45 a. m. The probate court decided today that the son of Charles R. Slingsby is the legitimate le-gitimate heir to the. $500,000 baronial property of the Slingsby family in Yorkshire. The case has been before the courts for nearly two years. Charles R. Slingsby, formerly a lieutenant lieu-tenant in the British navy and afterward after-ward a resident of San Francisco, is in possession of the property which was i devised 16 his offspring. When he aoked the court to confirm the succession, succes-sion, a younger brother protested, on he ground that tho child was not a legitimate son, but an infant substituted substi-tuted by, the lieutenant's wife when her own child died. Since the case has been on trial, evidence evi-dence has been taken in California, and records produced there to prove the child the legitimate heir of the Slingsby Slings-by s. The judge said that, after an exhaustive exhaus-tive review of the evidence, ho had come to the conclusion that Mrs. Slingsby Slings-by had given birth to the child on September 1, 1910, in McAllister street, San Francisco, and that the statement that ehe had put forward another child was untrue and invented for the purpose pur-pose of the case. Court Is Severe. The courtroom was filled with relatives rela-tives and friends of the Slingsbys. The "judge, in reviewing the case, censured the manner in which the inquiry in-quiry was handled and the depositions taken in San' Francisco and laid emphasis em-phasis upon his impression of the utter unreliability of the witnesses opposing the claims of the infant Slingsby. Ho said: There is another matter in this ease which is conclusive. I have watched the little boy in court, and I have been much impressed with his extraordinary likeness to Mrs. Slingsby. Moreover it is difficult to speak of Mr. Slingsby in his presence pres-ence but he has a full round fac and a peculiarly shaped jaw, and the boy is a counterpart of his father iu these respects. I felt so strongly on these matters mat-ters that 1 calleu "in a personal frieu;!, a well-known artist, Sir George Frampton. I did not tell him my view; 1 merely asked him to come into court and watch. Sir George immediately noted the extraordinary ex-traordinary resemblance of the boy to his father. Likeness Again Noted. The mother was not present that 1 day. Sir'' George said he would like to see her, as.be had noticed an odd shape of the boy's left ear which did not resemble that of hi3 father. Accordingly, Mrs. Slings-bv Slings-bv was brought to my room and introduced to the artist, who immediately imme-diately observed the extraordinary similarity between the left ear of the mother and the b-ft ear of tho sou. So far as 1 know, the child could not have those peculiarities unless they were congenitaJ. Regarding the San Francisco deposi-, deposi-, tions. the judge said : ! Tt is not impossible to he struck with the fart that we have very ! unscrupulous people to deal with in this erm I do not wish to impute i anv blame, but one man was prom- ise'l $50u to hunt up witnesses in j Colon. If you find money going about like that it must tinge tho whole case. HISTORY OF ACTION IN SAN FRANCISCO SAX FRANCISCO. Feb. -Lieut c n-a n-a n t. Charles Henry Revnard Slinol.v formeriy of the British navy, married j.m American girl. Pornthv Cutler Mor- (Continued. on Page Seven.) mm slimy AETHH IS BECIPEDj (Continued from Page One.) gun. The couple lived for some years on the Pacific coast, at times in Victoria, Vic-toria, B. C, and at times in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Teddy Slingsby, their son, today declared heir to the Slingsby fortune, was born here in the fall of 1910. Three vears later it became known J t bat the birth certificate filed with the state board of health at Sacramento had been altered, at the direction of the board, to read: "Paul Colvin, father; Lillian Anderson, Ander-son, mother." At the t-ante time there came into evidence an advertisement inserted in a Han Francisco morning newspaper, within a few days of' the time of the birth and purporting to be in the handwriting hand-writing of Mrs. Slingsby, calling for a new-born male infant. These disclosures led to the trial of Dr. W. W, Fraser of Weaverville, Cab, Mrs. Slingsby 's physician, on a charge of having falsified a public record. rec-ord. His defense that a birth certiorate certio-rate is not a public document within the meaning or the penal code found favor and he was acquitted. The case then shifted to the British courts, though evidence continued to be taken here before the British vice consul, acting as a commissioner of tbe high court of chancery. |