Show THE X S ALT LAKE TRIBUNE4 SUNDAY M®RNING JUNE 6 1937 r-- i O Voice of Canny Street "Wizard of Wall Echoes-Throug- t h m ? vv ? ' VsVij ± A v W vS airvyA va ‘aAo: tA V'V v W? vv -- A A ' A A- - ' X $80000000 t ! fXS 1) yV Fortune " VA-'- " lT 'ey (:'' ' ' J A - ' s 1 'i ' ' ' ' v ' trTT’ '''A" ‘ ' 0fVf ' Mjl 4 e i ' 'vA’A'r i A V: ‘ v f rt 'V X1 "X I hCyi: BELLE OF THE NINETIES Quaint Lovely Old Photo of the Present Mr Mat these Astor Wilks as She Looked at the Turn of the Century Lene8hyr She Termite Few Cameramen to “Shoot’-H- er Theee Days -- j n' I $ X tM’ AW A 1 4 Vt K V V' '? 'i '" '’’v ' Y THE at the court v A’A 'I attention ot the Society tor Psychical Research has directed to an alleged manifestation of psychie forces occurred a few days ago in a dignified Hew York City court of justice The Incident has been described'ai a " ghostly demonstration ot the power ot Hetty Green’s spirit A witness was on the stand parrying the shrewd interrogations ot a brilliant legal expert The disposition of many of the Green millions might hang on the answers that witnesses gave And suddenly the witness Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks recalled to the minds of many of her listeners the staccato voice the abrupt mannerisms and the biting reperfe of her mother Mrs Hetty Green It seemed as though the Lady Wizard of Wal Street had come back to court to fight for her millions as if her hooded wraith in deep shadow behind the wit ness chair were prompting her daughter’s every move— telling her what to say and how to ding biting sarcasm even '' ' :a m xm ASlsiBiSliA Y' i s-- itself vVi "Mrs Wilks' in person was seated in the- witness chair" declared one venerable court attendant "but the voice was Hetty Green’s ’' -- I - ‘ A 4n eII r “s i VV A Vrm ‘A! til': '!!$ " ' " ' : : i f I I v j zx k'Mx (v AX Vr Ml M' rjliVM I' il ' ’ r ' t sx a r A A f -- Y i t - x ' A A' " v i 5tlkyeviewrzyievv6rAvfrvwiA6wride'lusCMwi WITHDRAWN FROM THE WORLD In Title Spaclouslv Attractive Country House at Greenwich Hetty Green Wilks Lives in Splendid Seclusion— Except She's Due to Appear in Court er tertaining - Financial-Manipulation- Astounded Wall Street NOW There’s Been a Hot'’ Squabble Over the Riches She Left C) American Press Association a court iq'midtown Manhattan a legal INrecently ’wasthatstaged almost made startlcomedy-- drama ed spectators believe In reincar“ On the witness stand now vibrated now reposed was a lady no longer young but brimful of the crisp fire of an arresting personality: She was be- nation in regard to her ing dead mother’s vast fortune Queried Surrogate Harry E- - Owen cross-examin- quent In- Wilks anThis naturally noyed Mabel Green who promptly -- started suit td’eash in on ber dower rights as a widow Unfortunately at this Juncture somebody dug up a paper de scribed as an ante-nupti- al agreement I ' :Y actual-domici- multi-millio- Un-1-li- y Copyright 1937 a s i ' I ‘ft’ f his— d - :L "n tnlssus7 waiving her claim to the fortune and' it is asserted bearing her signature Suing to break' the will the widow was named administratrix by a Texas judge (Green lived for a time in that state) She was awarded control of between“the-Colonel“sn- just T )) peroration into when she slipped stead every th ng went to Sister Sylvia - was- d Swinging into his elo- Mabel flesh-and-blo- FHANTOM IN BLACK ' Characteristic "Shot” of Hetty Green Whose Expert money-ma- public’ g attentiondrew like a mag-- ’ net Incidentally it disclosed some of the — and workings the estate — of Ameri— Bu- tcan- law: technique as four state a—N e w mejnwhti e York Texas Vermont aad Massachuapplied to huge inhersetts— were clamorously claiming inhitances taxes on the $80000- But more' thanany- - eritance-rights 0n top- - of aUthis the Fed- the fact that the—000-Thething- eral Government "Insisted on sending physical being of a strange almost unique person may perish but her soul its representatives to attend the New — or was it her hearing where distracted efforts ghost (or at— least her York T) may go were being made to establish definitely pungentbnindividuality in the of where the Colonel’s marching r had been her surviving pugnaciHSUauKhtev Even before she died in 1917" Hetty “ During the welter of court proceedGreen was a legend in the popular' ings the dead hand of old Hetty never lost Its grip on the situation The finimagination And for once the fables lived' up to the facts which were grogers of the aged widow were relaxed tesque well nigh incredible salted in dust but their sinews seem te have moved almost magically through the with drama and spiced with wild farce medium of the very much alive Sylvia Known over a continent as the — -- Green Wilks poWhen she testified in the litely as the Wizard of Wall Street dour old Widow Green spurned peraudience chamber snapped tq attention sonal finery hated jewels invariably - as if summonethby the specter bf Wall dressed in the most rustily - shabby Street's vanished financial wizard And black while nobne'had the temerity to ac-'- " Like all misers she kept her titanic cuse Sylvia of being a holdings up to the moment of her alre miseress she shotted by her pepdeath which she fought mightHy pery retorts that she was an extrememost misers she’ foresightedly ly sound business woman— as sound and shrewd as her mother A planned to guide and control her millions’ destinies from beyond the grave In less salient traits (most of them But it was not until the death of" distinctly-unlovabl- e F" therrwasiio par her son Colonel Edward H R Green allel between-Hettand her daughter gs the squabble Choate with whom Hetty had danced as a debutante before she went ft ' 'm 1 en- $80 Mrs Harlow Green bat- at It mated ooo ooo -- re mtmuyt a single cent of the riches his mother had bequeathed him had been left by the to doughty eccentric bitter tle over Hetty Green's colossal riches es- - “Multi-Millionai- that not his wife J J Don Komlsarow’s Conception of the Scene In Surrogate's Court New York When the Specter of Old Hetty Green Miser” Seemed to Be Frdmptlng Her Daughter in the Legal Fight Over Hetty’s Vast Fortune vAl their astonishment is Hetty Greens” The A When a couple of years ago that the cleverness of her project was realized After the Colonel's will had been read people realized to of Essex County NewJersey: “Mrs Wilks tell Mr where you found your brother’s will" Snapped Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks: “I won't answer'That is a private affair!” - And one man in the warm crowded little court turned to another and remarked twinklingly: “The face Is Sylvia Wilks' but the voice but vastly Conn IV 4 '(M a i fAmiT'iiii'fiii'iVoii ECCENTRIC CROESUS: FRETTY PROTEGEE d Edward Green Seated with Ruth Lawrence In His “Electric Chariot” — from s Snapshot Taken In 1934 Shortly Before His Death Radio-Equippe- In her life Hetty’s countless economies in her wild thirst for money money and yet more money were often marked by a business sense vergifig oh avarice" For instance when : Son Edward was 14 he injured his kneecap while coast- ing His mother was already In the multi-millionair- e class but the thought or costly aurgery was appal- - to her Sooner than foot big doc- tor bills '"the old woman resorted' to home remedies Hot sand applied to the wounded leg' only caused the flesh to slough off It was not until three later the persistent rumor ran Hetty in humble attire brought the suffering bpy to New York There was Installed as patient in a charity hospital : X: But the' authorities nosing out Ed-“Identltyrr demanded advance payment for treatments Deeply in- - : censed his mother removed him: Five years afterward the leg was amputated in an Inexpensive boarding hourfe Hetty Green of Wall Street never maintained a New Yprk office Too expensive she would" say Instead she carried on her business in the old Chemical National Bank which waa Quite willing to humor the whim of ao £°°d a customer In fact she waa giv--lien e unhampered run of the place Odd scenes naturally ensued None of these eccentricities - has ever been featured by her surviving daughter But two things she undoubt-year- s edly shares with the redoubtable Het-thty: a sharp satiric sjnse of humor and an amusing pugnacity when represen-h- e tatives of the law try to orner her Old Hetty' perpetually involved in litigation once ran afoul of the famouS-ward- ’s attorney Joseph Choate who was suavely representing the other side of at - and let And "While nothing age” court Swiftly she pulled out a piljow-cas- e clutched it to her and with bogus sobs ejaculated: “He’s breaking my heart!” The laughter and ap plause nearly ruined the lawyer’s speech Just the other day during a hearing of the Green will case Mrs Wilks demonstrated her ability to her legal ad — disquiet versarles Quizzed “ Isaac A Penn packer of Philadelphia counsel for Edward Green’s widow: - “How old old-time- rs A art you?” Answer: “Put me down as over fifty lt go at that!” then Hetty Junior added: standing there doing please give your name and - ' you’re Answer (in rather meek toner) name is Pennypacker and I’m:‘“My also over fifty” — Hetty “Huh! You look a lot older than that!” She deposed that her brother lived at 8 West 90th Street “If you can call that living” and had never seen the house' heavily staffed with : servant But I did see a Japanese running around loose there" she concluded with icy majesty' It was the sort of tart answer the might have expected the original Wizard - of Wall Street to make Maybe there’s something la gw Incaration after alL v -- i 'A |