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Show MOTHER SANE, SAYS MRS. VAN VALKENBURG Hearing before Judge John Tobiu of the third district court in the matter of contest of the will of the late Mrs. Km-rr.a Km-rr.a J. Van Valkenburg progressed through cross-examination of Mrs. John R. Van Valkenburg, wife of the chief beneficiary of the will, and of William McI0wa.it, paying pay-ing teller of Zion's Savings Bank Trust company. Mrs. Van Valkenburg insisted that she "had never seen anything in the actions of her mother to Justify belief that she was not of sound ai.d disposing dispos-ing wind at tha Uir.o of making the will.' j Mr. 7fcIwan, who wa3 caJ!ed as a handwriting hand-writing expert, expressed a need of fur- ther samples of the handwriting of Mrs. Van Valkenburg for comparison with the signature upon tho will. Two unsigned notes, paid to be In Mrs. Van Valkenburg's handwriting, were produced pro-duced by Mrs. Lottie R. Daly, contestant of the will, and admitted in evidence, though they did not bear the signature of the signer of the will. Mrs. Daly, who Is endeavoring to have set aside the wlil by which her half-brother, John R. Van "Valkenburg received the major part of their mother's esiate, said that the notes were written to her by her mother, and as samples of her handwriting, handwrit-ing, they were admitted as evidence. |