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Show SALT LAKE END TO STRANGE CASE Of SHOE-LACE PEDDLER LOS ANCJEMSS. Cal., April 2::. A j now chapter to the story of a shoe lace peddler who eked out a meager exist-euco exist-euco in Denver and died in a hovel without knowing lie -was heir to a tidy sum. lias been revealed in Los Angeles in connection with a contest over the estate of .lohn Caine, who died at. Long Beach a year ago. The peddler was Philip Came. John's brother. Charges of intrigue are now added to j lho tule. They involve a deathbed statement from John Caine that he had been fleeced of rich milling property. There is also disclosed the claim of a woman that she is the widow of .lohn Caine, while his deathbed statement was rhat he had never been wedded. The contest will center in Salt Luke City within a few days, but Public Administrator Brysoif of Los Angeles is holding $3o0n in "cash belonging to the estate, and British Vice Consul Mortimer Morti-mer is representing English heirs four children of William Caine, who lived on the Isle of Man. The three brothers were second cousins of Hall Caine. When John Cr'-vn died there were filed letters of .-dniinistration in Salt Lake City and Lo Angeles. Caine had lived previously in Utah, and letters of probate were in the hands of l' M Mc-Gurrin Mc-Gurrin of Salt Lako City. The clash of jurisdiction brought out before a commission testimony from a Long Beach physician, in which he said: "John Caine told' me that he had never married, and all of his business was represented in a bundle of papers, lie said the address of his agent was there." The physician testified that ho did not look at the papers until the man was dead, and then found that the agent was Mcliurrin. Despite this testimony (iat John Caine never married, there came forward for-ward as claimants to the estate Mrs. A. M. Sellig of 101 Poplar avenue. Og-den, Og-den, Utah, who said she was the former wife of Caine, and her daughter. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bulk ley of Ogdeu. said that letters of administration issued to Mr. MeCiurrin be revoked, alleging that John Caine left other mining proper-tics proper-tics and claims in Utah which have not been included in the inventory in that state. They "have asked that a Salt Lake City banker take charge of. the propert'." An effort was made by The Tribune to see Mr. McGurrin with reference to the matter. Friday night, but it was ascertained that he was out of the city. |