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Show SO.V TICSTII'IKS ON IlIDDKN LIKE OF HETTY GUEE.V Soys She Used Numerous Aliases In Order to Avoid Bother. ' Now York. Eccentricities of tho late Mrs. Hetty H. R. Green, roputcd to have been tho rlched woman In tho world, wero disclosed in tho surrogate's sur-rogate's court hero today through tho filing of testimony given 'by her son, Col. E. H. R. Green, boforo a transfer tnx collector. Tho stnto Is endeavoring to prove that Mrs. Green was a rosident of Now York when she died, last July. Hitherto unrovealed methods that Mrs.Grcpn adopted to conceal her Identity to avoid cranks, her foars for her personal safety, after tho attempt at-tempt on tho Hfo of Russell Sago, tho numerous aliases under which sho lived In unpretentious neighborhoods, neighbor-hoods, and her persistent dovotlon to business and financial transactions, all were related by her son. Used Many Names. Among tho assumed names usod by Mrs. Green, her son testified, woro Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Warrington, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Martin, Miss Hlckey, and others ho could not recall. A list of checks drawn In 1015, covering twonty-flvo Weoks, showed tho rich woman paid from J10 to 14 a week for board and lodging. ABked If his mother romalncd long at a tlmo In her boarding housos, Col. Green replied: "No, sir, n short tlmo. Tho news- paper men and tho cranks usod to got after her, and tbo charity peo-plo peo-plo would got aftor her, and sho would keep moving around. Every placo sho went sho had a dlfforont name. Her favorlto name was Dowoy. She had a llttlo dog by that name, so sho put on the dog's namo." Hail No Social life. Of Mrs. Green's social llfo nor son said: "My mother was not much given to social llfo. My mother was noth- Ing but business, business, business. Thrco or four years ago she said to mo: 'I am alone, all tho people I know are dying off.' " Col. Green said his mother never owned any furrilturo or household effects In New York, although she spent a great part of her time In this city attending to her financial Investments. |