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Show DEATH OF MAD "EMPRESS OF WORLD" RENEWS FAMILY FEUD FAIRFIELD, Calif., Sept. 24. fl'.Ri -The feud of the Wolfskill clan has flamed anew with the arrfval of two brothers to investigate the mysterious death of their sister, Iiene Wolfskill, 5T, self-styled "ein-prcHs "ein-prcHs of the world." Ney Wolfskill of Coos Bay, Oregon, Ore-gon, the elder brother, declared he wis convinced his sister had been kidnaped and murdered, but he refused re-fused to see or speak to Matt Wolf-skill, Wolf-skill, his younger brother who arrived from Los Angeles. Brothers Are Hostile Matt did not betray any sentiment senti-ment toward his brother either, making it clear he did not want to sea or talk to him. Hc refused to discuss the case of hi3 dead sister. While the open break between the brothers was a subject of much : comment, authorities announce i that new clues indicating murder had been found. The Wolfskill feud goes back 20 ' years when the brothers quari-fled I and they never spoko to each other until last July when they were I brought together by the strange dis- 1 appearance of their mad sister. i It was July 14 that the Jtelf- j styled empress hiked over the hills from her home near here and never returned. Hundreds of men rode the rangeland looking for her but no trace was found until Thursday night when a farmer boy camu upon up-on the badly decomposed body of the woman near Wooden creek, less than two miles from her home. , A. M. Harris, Burns detective who has been investigating the case for' a Los Angeles bank in which Miss Wolfskill had a $600,000 trust fund, declared that it looked tike murder. "During the eight days after ' her disappearance," Harris said, "hundreds of men searched Wooden Wood-en creek. I have learned they walked over the spot where the body was found. "I cannot understand why searchers search-ers did not find the body unless she had been slain and her body kept in concealment until the search died out." HeirftHS to $1,000,000 The "empress," a member of an ancient California family, was the heiress to nearly $1,000,000 which the brothers will now receive. She was a strange and mystifying mystify-ing character and walked tl; brown foothills of the Blue mountains, moun-tains, near here, by the hour. The day she walked away she wore her customary ankle-length skirt and was mumbling, as usual, about her "subjects' and "vast domain." When the body was found it was clad in underwear and a pair of men's overalls. An inquest, due to the condition of the body, failed to reveale the cause of death. Ney said he is convinced hi3 sister was murdered and that she would not be buried until the mystery mys-tery is cleared up. This led to bickering between the brothers, through a third person, as to funeral plans. Matt said that funeral services would be held in Los Angeles and when Ney was told of this he said: "He has no rights to make any plans. I am the oldest in the family fam-ily and I am interested in my sister, sis-ter, not her cash. I am the one to say when and how she will be buried,", and he banged the tffble with his fist. "She is going to be buried in Inglewod cemetery, near Los Angeles, An-geles, but not until the manner of her death is cleared up." The Wolfskills are members of a southern California family but had large holdings in this section of the state. The 'empress' " ranchc home was near here. |
