Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 7 | Nurse Testifies in Nordica Will Case

NURSE TESTIFIES IN . NORDICA WILL CASE h FREEHOLD, N: J., July 6. Miss Sadie Charlotte llaeDonald,' a British war nurse, who was civen a month 's furlough by the war office to come here and testify in the litigation over the estate of the late Madame Lillian Nor-dica, Nor-dica, took the stand in court here today to-day aB one of the witnesses of the i diva's will made on Thursday island, in tho South seaSj where she was taken in January, 1014, suffering from the effects of a shipwreck on the Australian Austra-lian coast. Miss MaeDonald was matron ma-tron of the Torres Strait hospital, where Madame Nordica died. She appeared in behalf of the singer's Bisters, in whose favor the will was made. She was cross-examined by counsel for George1' W. Young, husband of Madame Nordica, Nor-dica, who was the beneficiary under an earlier will and who instituted the contest con-test over the estate. When Miss MaeDonald was sought as a witness it was found she had enlisted enlist-ed as a war nurse and much difficulty was experienced in 'locating her. She was traced to Constantinople and then to Cairo, where it was learned she prohably was "somewhere in Franco." Letters finally renched her nt the front and arrangements were made through the British war office for her to come to tho United States to give her testimony.