Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 1 | Undue Influence by Priest is Alleged

UNDUE INFLUENCE BY PRIEST IS ALLEGED Heirs Petition Oourt to Set Aside the Will of Mrs. Kate Euddcn, Sister of Marcus Daly. AJN'ACOXDA. Mont.. OcL 6. Alleging undue influence on the part of the Rev. Kathor A. R. Coopman of Anaconda. In that whll; acting as her spiritual adviser and ronfe.sor lie drew tip a will and caused her to sign It when she was on hor deathbed, several heirs petitioned the district oourt hero today to s-et aside the will of Mrs. Kate Rudden. sister of the lato .Marcus Daly," copper king, and to remove the priest an executor. Mrs. Rudden died In Anaconda September Septem-ber 27, 1912. The estate Is estimated to bo worth J30.O0O. Under the will, two-thirds of this gocfl to Father Coopman; JtiOOO to Mrs. Mary Gerard, a nlce, and wife of the United States emba?ndor to Germany, Ger-many, and tho remaining twelve -heirs are cut off with H each. The latter include Marcus Daly of New York, a nephew: Countess Harriet Slgray of Hungary, and Sister Mary Victor of the convent or Notre Dame, Ind. The suit was brought on behalf of Mrn. Mary Daly of Brooklyn, a sister of the deceased, and thrc minor heirs.