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Show - oc GENERAL ECKERT'S WIDOW APPEARS NEW YORK, April 3. A gray-haired woman of G8 years, appeared today before Surrogate Coahalan and asserted assert-ed that sho Is the widow of General Thomas E. Eckert. former president of the Western Union Telegraph com pany, for possession of whose $3,000,-000 $3,000,-000 estate two sons are contesting. The witness married General Eckert, sho says, In 190S, and has the marriage mar-riage certificate and deed given her by General Eckert to his houso In West Eighty-sixth street, Washington, D. C She was given until Thursday to produce them. Tho woman, who said sho also was the widow of E. L. Davies, said that on the day of the alleged marriage to General Eckert sho lunched with him. He told her that "they were persecuting him and threatening to put him in an asylum and that s'omo woman wanted to marry him." They took a long automobile auto-mobile ride terminating at a houso, where a man performed a marrlago ceremony, and gave hor a certificate. Later, she said, General Eckert gave the deed to hor, although sho never lived with him. Mrs. Davies first met him, she said in 1SG7, when he was president of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph company and was employed, by him then as telegraph oporator. Her solo motive for coming Into tho case, she added, was to obtain recognition recog-nition of her widowhood, as she "did not want a penny of the-money." Lawyers Law-yers for the Eckert heirs said they did not regard Mrs, Davies' claim serious. se-rious. oo |