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Show TEACHER IS AN HEIR. Mrs. Jennings May Profit Under a Woman's Eccentric Will. Special to the Tribune. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 2S. A strango will, in which the testator declares any-ono any-ono claiming to bo a relative of her name Is an Impostor, and disposing of a J250.0CO estate. Is to be contested here. One of tho beneficiaries Is Martha Jennings of Salt Lake, Utah, a nleco of tho aged testator, tes-tator, and another Mrs. Jennings's son. Mrs. Catherine Burgess died November 8, leaving the bulk of the property to her attorney, Park Commissioner Charles E. Stramon. Tho contestants will bo Mrs. Burgess's two aged brothers. Timothy Harrington of Lcvcrett, aged 91, and John Harrington of Canton, aged 72. Mrs. Burgess declared In her will that anyone claiming to be her relative, who bore tho namo of Harrington, was an Impoater, but these men declare that they aro tho only near relatives of the woman, and that they several times aided her financially. finan-cially. Hence they know no reason why she should deny them. Mrs. Martha Jennings lives at 1205 Second Sec-ond street. Sho Is a cultured young woman, wo-man, and Is employed as a high ochool teacher. When aecn last night by a representative rep-resentative of The Trlbuno. she was very rotlcent about dlscussslng the subject of the will "I was Informed by telegraph a few days ago that I had been left a small inherltanco by Mrs. Burgess," she said, "and that Is all I know about It. I had not heard before that the will was to be contested, I don't know tho persons who are said to be contesting It. and thoreforo I can't say whother I shall dofend tho contest or not. Mrs. Burgess was my father's brother's wife. I never lived with her. but lived near her In Boston, and knew her Intimately from childhood up. I nover knew that sho hud any brothers. That part of It Is news to me." |