| Show I SP MINDS MIND I UNBALANCED i SAYS SON Contest of Will of Sporting Sport Sport- in ing Goods Man Alleges Und Undue p e r Influence SAN DIEGO Cal Oct 5 Contest Contest of ot th the will of t the late A. A G G. Spalding famous baseball pioneer and millionaire million million- alre aire sporting goods merchant was to be entered today immediately after the filing cf of the formal application ap ap- application I ap-I of the will to probate by Spaldings Spalding's son Keith who c charges arges that th 1 the will ill was procured through the undue ndue Influence of ot his wife Elizabeth Churchill Spalding and Mrs Katherine Tingley Tingle head of ot the Universal Brotherhood and Theo Theosophical society at Point Loma Cal Ca Spalding died at his residence In Point Loma September 9 last The contest p papers pers were filed tiled In hi court late yesterday after atter the closing hour and were not made public until today to to- day The contest alleges that for several sev sey eral years before his death Spalding was not in his right mind t that his mental and physical strength were wera impaired by advancing age by sick sickness ness and by business worries s. s The business worries says Bays the contest were occasioned by the loss of ot half halt halfa a million dollars in certain disastrous trous ventures Worries of other natures also contributed to his his' alleged alleged al ale unsoundness of f mind it is asserted as Fortun Fortune of A fortune of was accumulated accumulated mutated by Spalding and his first wife wite who died in 1899 according to the contest This says Keith Spalding was the result of ot the Joint industry of his father and mother nil And cumulated accumulated before the sec A n d TV w WAR H A n TV w H and ond d wand marriage rl g which hi h t took k p place i e in 1900 Up to the time of death the s sOn sn n alleges allege he was the object of his fathers father's strong affection and pride About the time the will was executed exe he continues and both before before before be be- fore and after atter told him and various v-arious friends that he wished his son to to- succeed him in his business business business busi busi- ness and property At these times continues the document he lie expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed gratification over the bustness bust busi ness career of his son Three Three fourths fourths of ot the estate consists consists con con- slats of ot stock in A A. G G. Spalding 8 Bros Bros' sporting goods houses bouses ac according according ac- ac cording to the contest and a por por- lion Hon of ot this stock was turned over overto overto I Ito to Spalding by his first wife wife with the express understanding that it it was to go to the son Keith At the time of ot he her marriage to I Spalding says the son Mrs Eliza Eliza- Elizabeth beth Churchill was the IntimateS intimate S ot friend of Katherine Tingley in a brotherhood at nj Point I j i Loma Joma oma and was held out by said saidI I Airs Tingley to the public and to Airs said said Elizabeth Churchill Spalding as all asher asher I he her successor in itt the command of ot f said work and institution Immediately after the marriage the document continues Mrs lug persuaded her husband to take up his residence within the grounds of the Theosophical institution The purpose of this it is alleged upon upon information and belief was to alienate alienate alien alien- ate Spalding from his son Suffered Apoplectic Stroke One month before his death alleges alleges al leges the contestant Spalding suf suf- suffered suffered a stroke of ot apoplexy but no word of or this was as conveyed to his relatives es until after his death Then he continues they cremated him so quickly that relatives had no opportunity opportunity op op- op of or seeing the body or being at the funeral Mrs 1 Elizabeth Churchill Spalding the widow who filed med the will for probate September 3 and who was named as executrix estimated the estate te to be worth Keith Spalding was under the terms of this will to receive of ot which amount he had already received 65 The adopted son Albert G G. Spalding was also bequeathed of which he had received ed 1000 The Tho remainder of I the he estate was left to Mrs Spalding |
