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Show WOMAN WROTE A BOGUS WILL San Francisco, Aug. 15. Through a confession made by Mrs. Mary Davles of Salmon City. Idaho, the mystery surrounding the authorship of a i trangely-worded will purporting to dispose of the $150,000 estate left by Susanna A. Moore, an aged recluso who died in 1H0S. Is cleared up. Mrs. D.'vies was named as solo legatee In the will, but admits that she forged the instrument and that she has a mania for writing bogus wills She sent the Moore will, together with an anonymous letter, to a Mrs. Edmunds at Wlnncmucca, Nev., who became tho innocent tool by sending the communications com-munications to tho public administrator administra-tor In this city. The exposure was made by a local attorney employed by heirs of Mrs. ' Moore. A trip to Salmon City and Mi interview with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Theo-dore Gauthler, relatives of the Da-vies Da-vies woman, brought to light her mania ma-nia and secured a confession fhlch Is embodied in affidavits to bo filed with tbe court today. |