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Show COURT SUSTAINS SCHANDEIN Will Bulk of Seven Million Dollar Estate Goes to the Heyls. WOMAN'S OTHER CHILDREN CUT OFF WITH PITTANCE Court Rules That Charge of Undue Un-due Influence Is Not Proven. MILWALTCEE. Wis . Nov J5.-Judge Carpenter today sustained the will of Mrs Llzett Schindeln and admitted the Instrument to probate The will mrvkea Mrs Jacob Hey the chief beneficiary of the r7.fl00,000 estate, and Mrs. Ella Ftank and ICnill Schondeln, two other children, were cut off with a f-mall aJlowanco. Tho contestants. Mrs Prank ana Emll Schan-deln, Schan-deln, sotiffht to break tho will, alleging ur.duc Inrtuenco on tho part of Jacob Hoi 1 A great portion of the derision Is given to a review of the testimony relating to alleged adulterous Incidents, in Bumming up this portion the Judge W B Finds Relations Innocent. "I must hold, thorefore, that the evidence evi-dence adduced Is not such ns would lead tho guarded discretion of a reasonable and Just man to tho conclusion that tho relatione between Mr Bctiandeln and Heyl were- adulterous .md the holding that the rontestantn have failed to pro0 that charge la equivalent to :i finding that the relations between Mrs Schandeln and H-1 must be considered, for the purposes of tho ease to have been Innocent. if such relations existed and were recent, they would not, of themselves, prove that Mrs. Schandeln wished to leave her mon-ev mon-ev away from the Hcyla and was prevented pre-vented from doing so by any kind of coercion exercised upon his mind." No Evidence of Deceit. Considering all the circumstances, the court says, he feels that It would be unreasonable un-reasonable to draw from Mrs. Schandeln's conduct I ho Inference that she was helpless help-less In Heyl'a power, and unless a broad Inference can bo reasonably drawn, tho whole Incident, of course has no bearing upon tho execution of tho will and codicil a dozen years later As confidential adviser ad-viser to Mrs. Schandeln the court says there Is no evidence that Jacob Heyl practiced prac-ticed any deeeit upon her. Thinks Act9 Voluntary. "It seems to me," the court continues, "that tho will of 1900. drawn by the attorneys at-torneys for tho contestants. Is the rock on which the case for the contestants goes to pieces, since It certainly must require re-quire the most convincing proof to brand I he testamentary acts of 1903 and l'H as Involuntary, considering that they simply continue tho main features of the frc-o testamentary act of lSuo. Tho will Is admitted ad-mitted to probate." |