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Show WEALTHY WIDOW AGAIN MARRIES Contestant in Famous Will Case Weds'Fred C Leroy, Guardian of Her Minor Son. NEW YORK, Oct. '. Mrs. Fannie Wayne Hopkins, widow of Maj. Robert E. Hopkins, tyho died five years ago, leaving an estate worth $3,000,000, was married to Fred C. Leroy of Tarrytown. N. Y., who was guardian under Maj. Hopkins' will of the latter 's minor son. The ceremony took 'place at St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church, Newton, Pa. Mai. Hopkins, who was a director of the Tide Water Oil company, which afterwards af-terwards was taken over by the Stand-, Stand-, ard Qil company, by his will left two-thirds two-thirds of his estate to his widow. A long contest ensued. The signature of Maj. Hopkins, attached at-tached to his will, had nine lines drawn through it.-and because of this an effort was. made to upset it. The contest failed, the court of appeals deciding in favor of Mrs. Hopkins. , |