Deseret Evening News | 1897-09-21 | Page 1 | Who Dies First?

WHO ImH WT Interesting i1juetisa 11 Ile Ion and Wife are Both tire ned San Francisco Sept 2AI tritereet Ing decision has bn rendere1 hy Judge Coffee In settling oil the e8tate ot Jell a to Parsonsvt of Captain Parsons Par-sons of the steamer Pacific which was lost tit moil In November 189 The matter cattle Into court through tire filing of n will said to have ben found In a bottle picked up at sea The helm of Captain Parsons claimed the estate on the ground that In law when a husband and wife die together In I disaster of any kind the husband Is I preumd to he th survivor 1 wn hon that n the time oC the wreck Mrs Persons was placed In a life boa while hey husband remained on the deck ot the Vessel whIch Aent down first Illis fact WB Stated by Niel Inrd quartermaster oC the steamer and tile only survivor oC tile wreck The judge accepted this evldenc and awantd the property to the heirs or I Mrs Persons She to well known on the stage as one oC he 1rUnerl sister