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Show I SPENDS CHRISTMAS IN MONTICELLO JI Miss Adelaide Brance Made Happy by Return of Picture Pic-ture of Couch. MONTICELLO, X Y TXsc. Co. Miss Adelaide Branco spent a lonely Christmas .In the Montleello Jail. Her only Joy was the return of n. photograph of the late Mclvin IL Couch, which had boen taken from Mer effects In the attorney's at-torney's office, where she had lived for three years in a secret room. Mrs. Couch got pofiseflslon of It and refused to give J It up to tho woman whose secret companionship com-panionship with Couch was discovered after his sudden death last Sunday. Miss Brance pleaded and threatened and Into this afternoon Mrs. Couch sent tho picture pic-ture to her. "It 1b the only thine I care for on earth," Miss Brance said tonlgrht. "Ic Is the beet Christmas present I could have received." MIsb Brance waited expectantly the comlnsr of her brother, H. O, Branco of Hartwick. X. Y.t but ho did not arrive today. She received more than fifty letters today from sympathizers. A, thorough search of Couch's effects revealed no will. In searching through her father's safe today Miss loulso CoucLi found Miss Brance's will, which was made two years ago. She willed to Couch everything- she possessed, which Included two mortgages amounting to 1500. |