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Show ADELE BLOOD TESTIFIES IN BRANSFORD WILL CASE Miss Adele Blood, well known actress, ac-tress, was the principal witness in the llolmea-Bransford will suit tried before be-fore Judge Harold M. Stephens in the Third district court Friday afternoon. The ault has been brought by Mrs. , Huaan Bransford Kmery Holmes to set , aside a will bv which her adopted daughter, Mrs. Crnce Kinery Ilransford, bequeathed to her husband, Wallace Bmnsford, Mrs. Holmes nephew, her . $ROO,000 estate. Mrs. Holmes alleges I that undue Influence waa used by I Bransford In securing the legacy, and I has asked for an undivided half of the ; estate. Miss Blood la a cous n of the de-i de-i fendant. Hhe testified that while here with the "Every woman" cast eTghl yars ago she cal'ed on Mrs. Bransford Brans-ford at the Bransford apartments and found her weeping. I'pon winning her conf.dence. the witness was tnld by Mrs. Bransford - that It wan a terrible thing to believe that a woman one I loved wss one's mother and then suddenly sud-denly tn learn thttt she was no relation At all, and that no one knew who you were. Hhe told the witness, according accord-ing to the testimony, that she would give anything in the world to win hack ! her mother's love, but that her htieland and hia family disliked Mra. Holmes, so that they Should not allow her to go and see her. She apologised to Miss Blood for not being able to extend her the use of a car, saylns; that Wallace would not ! allow It and would consider it ex i travagant. i Owing to the illness of W. W. Ray 1 of counsel for Bransford, the trial has been postponed until nest Wednesday, although the testimony of J. Keldman. Mrs. Holmes' gardener at Pasadena, will be taken Monday morning to al low him to return home. i |