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Show Jy Jcs JZS jZ? jZ7 j7 j7 JZf . JZs Jail Doors Yawn for Health Board Order Violators '" " ' - - " m l"l I llllail m s ilia is. hi hi i i nmii 1 ' 1 1 A . . . mm Oil STAND Usual Crowd Is Not in Attendance, Owing to Ruling That Audience Is Barred From Room Following a conforoneo thia yiorning botwoon all Judg of tho . lity and district court, opootaioro oro prohibited from attending triala during tho poriod of tho In-flaonia In-flaonia opidomio. AS 'A precaution against the spreading epidemic of Rpaninh influenza, all spectators were denied admittance today to Judge Harold M. Stephens' branch of th Third dlatrlct court, where tho $800,000 Holmea-Branaford will ault la bain tried. Bealdes Judce Btephene, only tho eontestante, roun-eel. roun-eel. witnesses and mem bora of the press wore admitted. Tho ault haa been brought by Mra. k Suean Branaford Emery Holraea X axalnat her nephew, Waller Brans-Meford, Brans-Meford, to recover one-half of the eetato left to him by her adopted dauihter, Mra. Grace Emery Branaford. Branaford waa called for croaa ex-' ex-' aminatlon by Judge W. H. Dickson - for the plaintiff, and related that he had told hia bride three bouro after their marriage that aha waa not Mra. Holmes' daughter, but an adopted one, and that they did not know who her parent were. Ho alao teatlfled that they had never diacuaeed the fact that they were coualna. He declared that the knowledge made her happier than anything; aho had ever heard In all her life. He told her aa aoon aa they had boarded the train fur the honeymoon trip. ll, claimed ha told her necauaa ha did not wlh to deoeiva her from the firat. Ha declared that after marriage hia wife did not winh to ae her mother or have her coma to their houae, but that he urged her to call at the Amelia palace. He admitted examining- papers In which Mra. Holmea had been allowed $44,000 by the court aa an allowance as guardian and that he believed It to be excessive. |