Show YOUNG WIDOW WILL FIGHT FOR MILLIONS OF HER FATHER IN LAW disposition of estate of samuel S brown pittsburg magnate reveals scandal LEFT MUCH MONEY TO HIS LATEST PET girl at the last supplanted wife of dead son in the old mans affections will was made as he lay on his death bed better an old man s darling than young mans slave runs the old bong probably martha lewis will con cur but mrs grace mcgoodwin brown daughter in law of the late samuel S brown smoky city mag nate and multi millionaire cau hard ly be expected to idolized and petted by her father in law for 15 years taught to con elder herself his heiress and intro minced everywhere as his daughter she tends herself left a paltry valle her martha E lewis has been given a sum exceed ang and a contest in the courts which will enrich lawyers and furnish sensa lions to satisfy the most scandal hungry dame is promised for mrs brown and all the rela alvee of the dead millionaire assert that his latest will executed on his adeath bed was made under undue influence and Is unjust and unfair worth over 20 samuel S brown died last decem her he left an estate scattered all the way between pittsburg new york and new orleans which is conserva lively estimated at he also left a will which is the bone of contention mrs brown young widow of the dead magnates only son had been told that she was to be his bene A goodly portion of the estate was to have been hers yet when the will was read she found herself cut off with a paltry batch of brewery bonds and these to go should ehe remarry but miss lewis bitter enemy of the millionaire s daughter in law bene cited to the extent of a quarter of a and more she had already supplanted the beautiful kentucky belle as the head of the old mans household before his death that was the last straw then came the open breach it is a strange story how these two young women came into the life of the millionaire there were a son and a daughter whom the old man ther in law and went straight to his heart you must stay here with us my dear said the millionaire and be my daughter too I 1 know will would have wished it so old man s daughter dead so the girl stayed along with the old man and year after year made herself better loved by him then pame another blow his only living child his daughter nellie died in italy I 1 am afraid my poor old heart will break said the old man bowed un der this added weight of woe there was no one to turn to save his daughter in law now he called her to him one day soon after the funeral and said stay here with me for I 1 am left alone be the head of my household and when I 1 die you will be the same in my will as if you were my own daughter and why bof are you not the wife of my dead son my only boya but the girl did not need this prom ise she loved the old man as the father of her boy husband her sis ter came to live with them and she took her place at the head of the brown household the servants were instructed to obey her in everything and wherever she went she was in produced trod by the millionaire as my daughter grace my sons widow dear to me as my own everywhere it was understood that the young widow was to be his heir ess folks were told that mr brown s life was insured tor in her favor barthi lewis appears mrs brown s sister married and she went back to kentucky with her tor a visit that waa the beginning of the end when she returned she found that miss lewis had been asked to live at the browns grace said the old millionaire by way of making clear how things stood just take marty and buy her some things and show her how to wear them marty was what mr brown elect ed to call the pretty girl he had in idolized when they grew up noth ing was too good for them inception of romance fifteen years ago william brown the millionaires only son was sent to kentucky to superintend the build ing of a railroad in which his father was interested there he met a blue grass belle beautiful grace mcgold win barely turned 16 the boys head was turned it was plainly love at first sight there was an ardent courtship and the youthful suitor won that day there came to the old man in pittsburg this dis patch princeton ky S S brown pittsburg pa I 1 am going to be married to the dearest girt in the world WILL that same day this wire went bad to kentucky pittsburg pa william brown princeton ky walt I 1 am coming down thai way this week S S BROWN for an answer this came back can t wait WILL and this was the reply all right go ahead god bless you both bring hei hone FATHER but it was not so fated will brown undisputed heir to the larger share of his fathers millions did not bring his bride home she brought him home in a coffin almost the next day he fell and was dead within a week the bride widow al most ill with her grief met her fa stalled as his in the big house young mrs brown balked some but she did as she was told but she refused to introduce the girl to her friends and she still was mr brown s mentor when he went to new york on matters social martha E lewis was the daughter of a boat caulker employed by mr brown when only a child in short dresses the millionaire had taken to her because ohp reminded him of his dead daughter when she was a tiny girl when she grew older he made her his almoner in his many charities and when she was out of her teens he had her made secretary of the sun day school which he had endowed gifts were showered upon her just as the were upon miss grace brown for ashue things went along smooth ly enough on the surface but mrs brown gradually discovered that she was being undermined miss lewis finally got control of the establish ment and ran it with an iron hand family makes objections the other browns brothers ins and nephews dian didn t like this at all they demanded that miss lewis be at least sent to live elsewhere and that mrs grace brown be brought back from kentucky where she had gone to give tone to the household not for a minute retorted the old man grace has chosen to live away from me and I 1 will not trouble her apparently however the aged mil Ilo was still fond of his sons widow she spent a part of the sea son with mr brown last year and as the christmas holidays were approach ing she received a hurried call to come to the old man s bedside he was dying the young widow caught the first train but as she sped through the darkness another will was being made in pittsburg in the old brown man sion with a few strokes of the pen all she had believed was to be hers was blotted out but no one told her this when she reached pittsburg the next morning young mrs brown was received with open arms twenty days later samuel S brown died during those 20 days the deathbed will did not come to light mrs brown s friends say that it was purposely hidden so that she would know nothing about it until it should be too late the mil Ilo died surrounded by his fam ily while mrs brown knelt at the bedside will kept secret never were greater efforts made to keep a will from becoming public it was filed secretly the authorities hereinafter provided tor in the case of my res duary estate and I 1 au thor ze and en power said trustee to sell said bonds and to reinvest the pro ceede of sale at its discretion in striking contrast with this are the clauses in which miss lewis bene fits in the following sections of the same will ninth I 1 give and bequeath to miss martha b lewis of the city of pitts burg one halt of the residue of my library wherever the same may be sit aate at the appraised value thereof she to have the right to select books to the amount of one 1 alf I 1 also g ve and bequeath to the said martha E lewis my astoria states ng trophy and the box of s Iver ware wh ch I 1 re bently burcl ased from bieren broa co tenth I 1 also give and bequeath to M ss martha E le v s aforesaid first mortgage bonds of the P brew ing company to tl e aggregate par value of 30 wh ch I 1 d shall be de levered to her by my executors with n 30 days after my death and it for any reason the sa d bonds are not del vered with n the period d I 1 direct my executors to pay to her on the first day of the month following my death the sum of and a 1 ke sum monthly thereafter 1 sa d bonds are ered to her the library from which miss lewla was empowered by the will to select one half of the books is worth aa and one of the most complete libraries in the city the astoria racing plate which also went to miss lewis was were ordered to keep it secret and meekly complied the family lawyea I 1 furnished an extract to the pers but all reference to either of the young women in the case was careful ly eliminated all we care to give out to the newspapers was the lawyer s curt rejoinder when pressed for an ex plan atlon but the new york sunday worlds correspondent n pittsburg made things so interesting tor all concerned that finally the entire contents of the wilt were made public as provided by law then the storm broke the feud became public property promptly there came a demand from the officers of the mary brown church that miss bowls resign her position in the sun day school forced to leave sunday school the church had mr brown s 70 they cared no longer they had bowed to his will in life and they had installed his to a tion of distinction in church affairs now they would have no more of her at a public hearing she was asked to resign and she did then she announced that she in tended marrying and that was her ostensible reason for retiring she and william arthur porter a race track employed of old man brown s had long been in love in tact they loved each other before he was taken ill here were the provisions of the will concerning the young women in the case bequests to martha X ewis beconi I 1 give and bequeath to the un on trust company of pittsburg first mortgage bonds of the pittsburg brew ing company to the aggregate value of 0 in trust nevertheless to pay the net interest and income to my daughter in law grace M brown for and during the term of her natural life if she so long remain a widow and from and after her marriage or death in further trust to divide or distribute the principal of said trust fund to the ot gold valued at 10 it wai won by sue smith received many presents by the will miss lewis got in at 60 this was only a small pop alon of her benefits when she 23 her last birthday mr brows handed the delighted girl ill new bills only a few months before he had given her a beautiful big house on greenfield avenue worth 20 this is where the bride will live when she returns from her honeymoon abe got 20 worth of diamonds too and in all in cash say mrs brown s friends before the old man a death the browns have taken the daugh ter in law to their hearts she ie again mistress of the old brown man sion there to stay as long as she pleases V harry brown the broth er even wealthier than S S brown who inherits the bulk of the estate is understood to be against misa lewis claim there wae a tragic scene when abc will was read mrs elizabeth wll lard sister of the dead man knot nothing of it when she heard it gave the oung widow but 30 in beer bonds she burst out weeping and ran from the room crying oh sam uel how could you have done this thing A strange feature of this strang case is that the millionaire provided bet ter for the young widow after her death than during her life A niche by his direction has been reserved tor her in the rich marble mausoleum out at the cemetery there she will rest with the others of the family s dead and whether an old mans fickle fancy changed at the last or a design ing girl in a plot to secure wealth at the expense of reputation and standing in society is the ques alon probably it will be answered in the courts |