Show MRS FAIRCHILD A Peculiar Case in a Frobate Court PAT DELANEYS TESTIMONY The Parnell Commission Eight Missionaries Mis-sionaries alagfacred by Arabs O thor Telegraphic Items A Bachelors Wife CHICAGO January 17There was a strange disclosure today in the case of old Mrq Naomi Fairchild who claims to bs a widow of the wealthy supposed bachelor lumberman WalterS Walter-S Babcock who was mysteriously murdered last year at the house of Miss Sarah Dodge in Gardner Ills Mrs Fairchild has been trying through the I probate court here to secure a share i of Babcooka estate and had almost conclusively shown that Babcock had actually secretly sustained marital relations with her and attempted to prove that when she was in an apparently dying condition Babcock Bab-cock was married to her by Rev Mr Barnes a Methodist minister The testimony tes-timony of the clergymen left no doubt under the circumstance described that a marriage had taken place Mrs Julia Bratton a sister of Mrs Fairohild was on the stand and the fact crept out that the minister at her marriage was tte same Mr Burns Crossquestioning soon developed the fact that in every detail time and place the Bratten wedding wed-ding was identical with the marriage of Mrs Fairchild to Babcock The court a1journed at once and the opinion is I that Mrs Faiichilds case has fallen flat i I |