Show ADELE BLOOD FOR TESTIFIES MRS HOLMES jJ f. f I Star Says Grace Bransford Lamented Estrangement Required by Husband i DAUGHTER Dl SECRETLY READ D MOTHERS MOTHER'S WILL WILLiW iW l Housekeeper Avers Avera Defend Defend- Defendant kilt ant Op Opened ned Vault See to Last Testament I Miss Adol Blood noted actress I 33 or of ortho ortho tho taco stage arid and screen was called to tho the witness stand nd yesterday afternoon before be- be foro fore Judge Stephens In tho suit suLt of Mrs Mr rs Susanna Bransford Holmes Bolmes to act Bet aside deeds eed of property valued at nt more mire than J given b by Mr Mrs Holmes Holmes' adopt- adopt I i vl d daughter daug Grace Emory now noc- deceased to her husband Wallace IM Bransford wh 1 I defendant JM In tho the SUlL Thou Though h Miss lIss Blood Is i n n. of Mrs r I John S. S Bransford and hence a cousin I I of f Wallace M. M r Bransford her testimony was given In behalf o or of Mrs Ms Holmes I with whom she has beem been on friendliest I I terms for tho the last four years She spent only about an hour In 1 testifying tes- tes and aM being cross Her HerI statements deal with several seral conversations conversations conversa conversa- I sho had with Emery Emer Bransford Brans- Brans j ford tord about five years ago no when sho she I pont a week In Salt Lake IA appearing j at tho the Salt Lako Lake theatre in the leadIng lead lead- ins Ing rolo role of At that I I t time Ume sho she was the guest of Mrs Stella f f Evans E sister of tho defendant defend- defend lant ant In the tho suit Since Sinco then thon sho she has bas f visited In Salt takes Lake several sO times as 1 the guest of Mrs Holmes Mrs Bransford WaN VON In 11 l nr Miss lIss Blood said she sho called to see Mrs Bransford at her apartments In inthe I the iho Bransford ono one afternoon and found her cr crying According to tho the witness Mrs Bransford explained that she f felt folt lt f Ver very bad about the estrangement beI between between be be- I tween herself and her mother Mrs Irs t i Holmes and wished she could see StO Mrs Irs 1 j I Holmes oftener but that Wallace and other members of tho the Bransford family tam fam J 11 ily did not approve Grace Graco said she was Wl very worry sorry to learn sho she was adopted Miss IRS Blood t tes tes- I titled tined She Sho remarked How would II I I you ou like to think youre you're a n. certain person per per- son llon and then wake wako up to find youre you're ouro I not and dont don't know who you uro aro She add added d that Stella referring to M Mrs I 18 Lele N N. Evans E had also told her the Bransford family didn't like Mrs Ur Holmes Grace Shunned D noto Miss Blood testified that when she I was a n. guest hero here Grace told h her r I wish I could let left you ou have a ca car for tor your own use while whilo you are In Jn the city but Wallace 1 would think It extravagant r Sh She s said ld she he would have to go o to Wallace for tor money and he would wish to tJ know what she he he did with Ith It Jt MI Blood added Questioned concerning her knowledge knowl edge that Mrs Holmes intended to sue her nephew and son law Miss Iss Blood eald said she ho and Mrs rs Holmes discussed the suit several times and her first memory mem mem- or ory of talking about It was WIlS perhaps in December 1917 Mrs Irs Bransford died In Sn October 1 1917 17 and the suit was filed In May Iny 1918 Married ex Miss 1155 Blood testified that she was married in 1906 to Edwards Davis and that she divorced him several years oars I ago so She said Bald ho wo wan formerly a mm- mm j lister ister and left lett tho the pulpit to go on on tho thoI I 1 stage Miss Blood has spent two to weeks t In Salt Lake Lako waiting is to bo be called as a aI aJ J I witness In the tho suit Bult She Sho will wilt leave va at once for tor California where she Is 16 unI under un- un I der contract to act for a n. motion picture I company compan 1 I After Miss Bloods Blood's examination counsel coun- coun I eel sel for Mr Ir Bransford reported that W. W l. l j V W. W Ra Ray one of or Mr Bransford's at atI attorneys at- at nt-I nt I was still confined to his bed bedI I with Influenza and nt asked that the tho case t bo be continued until Wednesday October 23 Jo E. E B. B an attorney for tor 1 Mrs Ir Holmes said counsel for the plaintiff plain plain- tiff desired to put one witness on the tho thoi theS I i S stand Monday a. a Mr Feldman of Pasa- Pasa d dena n Court Wa was dismissed with the tho agreement I that thai tho testimony of ot Mr J should bo be taken Monday and andI I I tho suit euit then bo be continued until Wednesday Yesterday morning was vas occupied with I the examination of ot Mrs Mary Cassidy I t for tor many years housekeeper at th the Amelia palace fork for o Mrs Ir Ho Holmes mos Grace Foster Mother other Mrs rn Cassidy declared Grace showed i marked affection for lor her foster mother before h her r marriage to Wallace but t that In latter yearn yearb there was WM a u change chango and the tho daughter not visit at the Amelia palace pall so often Sho She testified that Grace told her she fihe will her had bad mode a a. leaving nothing to mother and that Grace said sho eho had done dono this because her mother had bequeathed bequeathed be be- qu nothing to her She Sho added that Grace remarked she eho know knew this bec because Wallace had got the key koy to the vault from his hla father John S S. S Bransford Bransford Bransford Brans- Brans ford and that the they had looked at nt Mrs Holmes Holme's will Mrs Cassidy admitted d on crO cross cross- 8 examination that she sho enjoyed the compan company com corn pany pan of or Grace Graco found her an in intelligent In- In young young- woman The witness Iso also acknowledged l that Mrs aIrs Holmes bad bod paid her hospital expenses during an n Illness 9 about I a a. year ago and that she Iho was still In tho the employ of oC Mrs Holmes Holme |