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Show cue e w 10 AID CKK, Colonel E. H. R. Green Tells of the Eccentricities of His Mother. NEW YOK K. Feb. 17. Eccentricities Eccentrici-ties of the late Mrs. Hetty H. R. Creeu, reputed to have been the richest woman in the world, were disclosed in the surrogate's sur-rogate's court here today through the filing of testimony given by her tsou, Colonel E. II. II. Creen, before a transfer trans-fer lax appraiser. .Tlie state is endeavoring endeav-oring to prove that Mrs. Green was a resident of Xow York when she died last July. Hitherto unrcvealed methods that Mrs. Green adopted to conceal her identity iden-tity to avoid cranks, her fears for her personal safety after the attempt on the life of Kussell Sage, the numerous aliases under which she lived in unpretentious unpre-tentious neighborhoods and her persistent persist-ent devotion to business and financial transactions, all were related by her son. Among the assumed names used by Mrs. Green, her son testified, were Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Warrington, Mrs. .Norton, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. J'ah, Mrs. Ma rtiu, Miss Hiekey and others he could not recall. A list of checks drawn in 1915, covering twenty-five weeks, showed that the rich womau paid from $10 to $14 u week for board and lodging. v Asked, if his mother remained long at 1 a time in her boarding houses, Colonel Green replied: "No, sir; a short time. The news-papermen news-papermen and the cranks used to wtr after her and the charity people would get after her and. she would move, keep moving around. Every pla-e she went she had a different name. Her favorite name was Dewey. She had a little dog by that name, so she put on the dog's name. ' ' Of Mrs. Green's social life her son. said: "My mother was not much given to social so-cial life. My mother was nothing but business, business, business." Colonel Green said his mother never owned anv furniture or household effects ef-fects in New YoTk, although she spent a great part of her time in this city attending at-tending to her financial investments. Asked where his mother lodged after 1911. he testified: . "I don't really know. She was moving mov-ing around from oue place to another. I think she used to visit the Countess Leary and then she would be in Ilo-boken Ilo-boken skipping around to boarding houses. She used to go to a Mrs. Reynolds Rey-nolds who kept a house up in Sixty-odd street." Colonel Green said his mother was born a Quaker, but was baptised into the Protestant Episcopal enureh. He said he retains bis residence in Texas and votes there. |