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Show SUIT FOR HALF A MILLION. The Heirs of a Former Governor of Utah Think That They Were Cheated. Chicago, Not. 19. The sixteen heirs of Charles Durkee, at one time governor of L'tah, have begun suit in the federal circuit court to recover over 500,000 of Durkee's estate, which, it is charged, they did not receive, re-ceive, because of the frauduient acts of F. H. Head of this city and Harvey Durkee, a half-brother of the deceased. These two laitter were executors of the estate. It is alleged that through their manipulations manipula-tions the rightful heirs were cheated. Mr. Head is charged with having so managed the estate as to get most of it in possession of himself and Harvey Durkee. The latter is now dead. The bill, which is a lengthy one, makes sensational charges. The complainants complain-ants are George Durkee of De Forrest, Wis., Charles L. Boardman of Watertown. S. D., and fourteen others who are scattered all over the country. Head, who is a well-known capitalist, and whose wife was a neice of ex-Governor Durkee, Dur-kee, said that the estate amounted to only 540,000, instead of $500,000. It has been twice in the courts, both times going against the plaintiffs. Head declares that the proceedings are blackmail. . A |