Show magic ic of law ruts puts millions in 9 pockets Fora forgotten otten poor cousins share in estate of wealthy oil man 1 LEFT HO fig WILL wealth comes to aged people whose lives have been largely filled with hardships hunt for heirs Is difficult wheaton satisfied smiles spread over nine faces la in the corridors 0 of f the red courthouse here recently for nine persons whose lives had been largely filled with hardships lin knew that within a few weeks they would be rich illch Is the only applicable word wealth to these people had been nothing but a dream judge S L of the dupage county court had just jur t indicated that five of the nine were lesal legal heirs to the estate of william 1 P cowan former president of the standard oil COID company PHIly ot of indiana who died at his wheaton country home in the summer of 0 1918 the other tour four were husbands and wives of the heirs nine 0 0 o o share with the establishment of by the five re rolat lathes lies of the wealthy oil roan man the total number of heirs who will receive a share of the estate Is nine aft afar expenses have been deducted according to attorneys attorn eya the estate will total more than each ot of the nine heirs will v receive something like when the inheritance taxes are arc paid three of the heirs are more than years of ago age one Is ninety the youngest Is forty lour four years old none of them remember personally the man whose death brought them this benefaction dut two ever saw him they look upon their Inherit Inh critani an as some forne vague dream of paradise the heirs who established their claims are Will william tarn saxton seventy two years old ragle eagle alch walter saxton seventy two years old mich charles saxton sixty eight years old elsie mich mrs caroline saxton hart fifty eight olgat years old grand ledge mab mrs R D I 1 colby forty four years oll old cadillac MIMI midi william rind and walter saxton are arc twins william Is married and his wife was in wheaton n with him mrs claby and mrs hart had bad their hus bus bimes along too ton other cowan heirs the other helm heirs who have established sufficient evidence of 0 relationship to sir mr cowan to win an andla tion of equity from judge nrc are judson phelps elpa ninety years old detroit mich B stillwell seventy years year old Glovers gloversville ville JT Y william G stillwell besenty two years old springfield mass nears at law of mrs bielon plymouth N Y anbo was ninety ive five years old when she tiled died a few weeks ago all of the heirs are cousins first second or third no nearer kin could be found by alfred C noy public administrator mint of dupage county the days hearing before judge bathje did not close cloge the case A few more depositions must be taken ft a few more weeks must elapse before the jurist can enter a decree but the saxton boys are happy when in 1918 it was learned that sir jr cowan a successful business man and one of the rich residents of the chicago golf club colony at wheaton had died nd left no will wheaton wondered then it was announced that there were sero no heirs in this state mrs lira cowans death had preceded her husi husbands brinds and there were no children and no brothers or slaters public AI administrator hoy took immediate charge of the estate and appointed ab led charles IV hadley and george T thoma 0 ma his attorneys sir jur kadley la Is tates states attorney of durage dupage county prid 9 weal criess for flaring flarine ties nine attorneys presented him with a new one in court for more than a year the only relatives sir hoy could coald locate were the stillwell lva judson phelps rii elps and mrs A few months ago one of the lie ans ton boys walter read it a newspaper article which referred to mr cowans death and his estate A few days later the saxton claim was entered the saxtons santons claimed to lie be the children of two daughters of peter cowan cayuga county INT Y the grandfather of william 11 1 cowan their claim was established by n marriage license census reports report old tinty tintypes tin types and testimony one of the twins saw sir mr cowan when lie was throe three years old another baston axton said lie was harn in the cowan home but I 1 ui further than that they had bad no personal recollection of their wealthy acla i dative views on liquor walter and william saxton are interested te in airplanes lint but they dont believe they will fiend spend much of their fortune on the aircraft you rou ran can get it doln ft red eye ey or an ride tor for 25 salil said aul wul tr ter 1 I belleve believe the airplane ride would be the oest you can ger ane same results front from either one liota or kill you walter and mr hart have been sex tons in diffrient cemeteries ever since they car can remember we ve been huryan buryl ji em ein trist as aboya die said mr hart but I 1 reckon well retire now liow not though sirs mrs colby sure what sil 1 do with her money neither 1 Is 13 3 mrs charles charlas saxton sure what she will do with her husbands but elsie mill 1 Is going to have soine thrills she mild 1 I guese we ive could all RO go in the mosing picture bul business mid aid mrs caroline hart she like to be called carrie put kut maybe well all a retire now pretty hard to quit work sa ld william 1 saxton baxton 4 woe been so loui long gee im kind N glad we heard d about it though no I 1 aint got et no daughters for any one to marry mrs Clint charles les saxton said she had bid two daug daughters Mers but thought they could take cae of 0 themselves them selve vec 11 lawyers who bavi AI been liean in the litls atlon were conferring in the judges hambers on it tombstone to bo erected over sir mr Cowit cowans ns grave 1 I hope them lawers leaves tm nn some of the money salil said walter |