Show ALLEGE ALIC ECKERT WIDOW A FAKE A NEW YORK April 4 A A gray ra haired woman of 68 S years ears appeared before Surrogate Coh Cohalan Jan and asserted that sho she is the widow of General Thomas T T. Eckert former president of ot the tho Western Union Telegraph company compan for tor possession of whose estate two sons ons arc are contesting Tho The witness married General Eckert she said sald In 1908 and has the marriage certificate and a deed given her hor by General Gen Gen- eral cral Eckert to his house in West Eighty Eighty- sixth street in a safe place In Washington Washing Washing- ton D. D C. C She Sho was given until Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- da day to produce them Tho The woman who said sald she also was the widow of ot E. E L. L Davies said that on tho the day of the tho alleged marriage to General Genera Eckert she lunched with him hInt He Ho told her that they were persecuting him and threatening to put him In an asylum Mylum and that some ome woman wanted to marry him The They took a. a long Jong ride ride ride- terminating at a a. house ahouse where a a. man performed performed per per- formed a maTTI marriage o ceremony and gave Rave her a certificate Later Lator she said General General Gen Gen- eral Eckert gave the tho deed to her al although although although al- al though she never ne lived Jived with him Mrs Irs Davies first met mel him she said in 1887 1867 when he ho was WM president of tho the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic Pacific Telegraph company and was as employed b by him then as aa telegraph operator Her sole motive for tor coming Into tho the case she added was to obtain recognition of ot her widowhood as u she he want a penny penn of tho the money Lawyers for tor the Eckert heirs said they thoy did not regard Mrs claim serl- serl |