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Show 101E MFLDM MCCIIi MKi CARD GAMES 7 FIGURE 111 TIL Maker of Will Attended Meeting sj Testimony and Wat Accurate as the 'Average Woman' A RIPPLE of smTrsemFTir swept ' over the visitors' pallery at the Holmes-Bransford will suit trial held in Judge Harold M. Stephens' division of the Third district court th:a morning when Mrs. Klbrldge Thomss, called by the drfenae, was cross examined by K. B. Crltrhlow In regard to the acrurary maintained In a. bridge game by the feminine ecorekeener. The an II has been brought by Mra. Kuaan iiransford Kmery Holmea to rrenvrr one-half of the 1800.000 eatate llrd to her nephew. Wallace Brana-ford. Brana-ford. hy hla wife, Mra. Grace Emery Itrnnftforri. an adopted daughter of Mm. Holmea. I ndue Influence on the I'i'.it of the beneficiary to Iho will la allrged hy the plaintiff. Aw Itlng to be railed aa wltneaeca. the members of the afternoon and t-venlng card clubs to which Mra. Hranoirord belonged for many yeara almost filled the visitors' gallery, although al-though no vialtora have been allowed In the courtroom alnre the fnvaelon of Spankfh lnfluensa In the city. PLAYER TESTIFIES. Mrs. Thomas was the first member of the club called and teatltled to having known the deceased alnoo her a marriage to Wallace Brmnsford. She " atated that she waa an unuaually good bridge player and frequently won priies. 8he often kept tha score, tha witness wit-ness aald, with as much accuracy aa the average woman; a statement which caused amusement among tha club members, he stated that the aternoon club ; met every two weeka from the fall of l&Oi until the time of ' Mrs. p ran ford s death In the fall of 1817. Tha eve- nine club aJeo met every t wo weeks, during that time. Mrs. Bransford was nearly always present. fshtj testified that Mra. Bransford waa Intelligent above the average, but failed to atate the reasons for her opinion, opin-ion, except thst she decorated her own bouse and discussed play and books which they had both enjoyed In an Intelligent In-telligent manner. The members of the card Hubs who were on hand to teatlfy today were Mrs. W. H. Child. Mrs. Fred Pern, Mrs. C. B. Travera, Mra, A. L. Hoppaujrh. Mra. Howard Lawaon.'Mra. W. 1 El- Jerbeck. Mrs, George Stelner, Mra. Levia Evan a. Mrs. Frank Dole, Mrs. James Rogers. Other members of the club, Mrs. Thomas testified, were Mra James pick. Mrs. George A Iris and Mrs. Ar-. Ar-. thur Brown. MOTHER UNKNOWN. Mrs. Ann Cross, former cook and housekeeper of Mrs. Bransford. waa railed for crosa examination by Mr. 'Crltchlow and declared that during the two years that she was employed by the Bransford that she waa a confidante confi-dante of her mistress and that the latter lat-ter told her after a short acquaintance that she was only an adopted daugnter of Mrs. Holmes and that ahe did not know who her mother was. Hhe also told the witness that It made her happy to know that ahe was an gdopted daughter, because she had always al-ways thought that she waa a cousin k of her husband. I |