Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-17 | Page 4 | Keystone State Charges Fraud Plot to 3 in Claim for 20-Million Estate

Keystone State Charges Charge's Fraud Frana Plot To 3 in Claim for Million 20 Estate 1 PHILADELPHIA Nov 17 JP A A year old wallpaper dealer and two women witnesses were I IA charged today with conspiring to defraud the commonwealth through their claim to a estate left by an eccentric widow wido of a Philadelphia snuff manufacturer The man Isaac Newton Sheaffer Sheaffer Sheaffer Sheaf- Sheaf fer of Newark Del sought the entire fortune The women Miss Grace L L. Sheaffer 54 of Penfield Penfield Penfield Pen- Pen field Pa Par and Mrs Mary E E. Suter 62 of Lancaster Pa supported supported sup sup- ported his contention that he was wasa a son of th the widow Mrs Henrietta E. E Garrett born before her mar mar- Their arrest came dramatically yesterday at a special masters master's tearing searing after alter a commonwealth witness Alfred Cohn year old Lancaster bookkeeper testified he unwittingly wrote false entries in an old Sheaffer family Bible at Miss Sheaffers Sheaffer's request Describing himself as a refugee Jewish German-Jewish lawyer Cohn said the woman styled self-styled foster sis sis- ter of the Delaware man paid him 5 for making the the entries which which linked the Sheaffer family with Garrett Mrs Suter claims she is Sheaffers Sheaffer's cousin Deputy At Attorney tor n e y General Thomas H. H Minnick Jr who represents represents represents rep rep- resents the states state's claim to the estate by escheat and who ordered the arrests declared This whole case from the he beginning reeked with fraud the forgery changing of records even to the sanctity of a church He said he had warrants for the arrest of 15 others including Carmen Carmen Carmen Car Car- men of Newark Del whom he called the real man be behind behind behind be- be hind this The arrests were the first in inthe inthe inthe the case which took form after Mrs Garrett died in 1930 She disposed of only a small smaIl part of her estate by will Claims of kinship kinship kinship kin kin- ship have come from persons persons per per- sons Ions throughout the the- world