OCR Text |
Show HUSBAND IS HEIR TO BIG FORTUNE Now York, Feb. 10. There will be no soit of trouble oer tho bcttlcment of the Immense estate left by Rdwlu Hnwiey, tho railroad magnate. Tl'ii much was developed today nt a conference con-ference between representatives of the common law heirs of the dead millionaire who died suddenl nnd IntjHtnte n week ago. It also was developed that the ill drawn for him In 1909 by his counsel John II. Starchfleld, but never exec uted, provided substantially for tha disposition of the estate. He made no provision In the 1909 will for nuy special bequests. Not even his longtime long-time protege. Miss Margaret Ciuncr-on, Ciuncr-on, was mentioned In that document. Closo friends ot the dead magnate said toduy that it was rational to assume that lie had nmply provided for her before ho made tho 1909 "will. She was a guest today at the Hawloy city mansion, but refused to see reporters. re-porters. Mrs. Fred Crundnll, wife of tho discarded dis-carded nephew of the multi-million aire, said tonight Hint Walter Cran-dall, Cran-dall, liar husbund's brother, who is ono of tho threo administrators of tho estate, had given assurances that Miss Cameron would "comfortably provided for" for life. If necessary, out of tho -earnings of the cstato. Another clos friends of tho fnmlly said positively tho icport that Haw-lay Haw-lay nnd Miss Cameron wero preparing prepar-ing to marry when the rallraod manipulator man-ipulator suddenly wns Btricken with fatal Illness. Trust Agreement At tho sug.'Htlon ot counsel for the udmlulstratars of tho cstnte, the heirs entered Into agreement today to ere-ato ere-ato n holding trust for the estate for n period of flv yenrs. Tho proposo of this is to better conserve the estate by holding Intact tho large and varied lino of securities that had been heir by Mr. Hnwioy In ninny railroads. Tho Income from these secmltie3 will be dlstilbuted to tho heirs according to their respective Inheritances. Thus far the utmost harmony among the heirs and administrators has prevailed. prevail-ed. Fred Crondnll, nlthough In hiding alike from his wifo and fhe children oxer since ho wns so nmuzedly lifted fiom want and penudy by tho death of tils uncle, appeared nt tho offlees of Stiinchllcld and Levy today and gae his nsBont to the tmst arrangement, arrange-ment, ills wife, for maroiug whom he was discarded by his rkh uncle, was i cleaned todav from n threo weeks sentence to the woikhouse for engaging In a brawl with the mother of n young woineiwwlth whom she allege al-lege her husband had been Infatuated Infatuat-ed She said tonight that ttie expected expect-ed him to return to her and Ikji- children. child-ren. Sho hud known nothing of tlu great fortune coming toiler husband until she wns met at the pier us sho vns coming from Iiluckw ell's Island and told of It by her sister One Outside Claimant. Tho onlv claimant for a bhoro of tho Hawloy estute, except his blood kin, who thus for has been heard or Is Edwin Hnwioy Van Wyck, UG earB old, linnii'sako nnd godson of tho llntmcler and nephew of former Judgo Augustus Vnn Wtk ino claimant said today ho had placed his claim In tho bunds of n lawyor nnd that ho bnlsed It upon oral and written assurances given by Mr. Haw-loj, Haw-loj, who was a close fried of his father, n woll known shipping agent young Van Wyck said his father wns now contlned In a sanitarium. When asked what ho would do with tho money should he bo given a part of tho Hawloy estate, tho young claim lant said: Of course It requires many thous-sands thous-sands a year to live in New Vol It m nny style, l'vo made enough to supply sup-ply myself with two automobiles nnd I think if I should got enough more money to Justify It I would buy nn aeroplane. n |