Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-07-14 | Page 8 | Orphan's Will is Contested

ORPHANS ORPHAN'S Will ILL ILLIS WillIS IS CONTESTED I Servant Girl Admits She Signed Paper Without Reading It CHICAGO July 14 Con tA OP Con Contesting testing relatives of ot tho ho late Hie Wil William 11 liam N. N 1 McClintock opened an at attack at- at attack tack on the execution of ot the Mc Mc- McClintock Ie- Ie Clintock wIlt will when hen It was offered for probate here today by b William Darling Shepherd principal bene Under the will Shepherd recently acquitted of oC the murder of ot receives the bulk hulk bulkot of ot the tho millionaire orphans 1 1 estate examination Cross of Shepherds Shepherd's first witness Marie arle Gartner dis dIs- disclosed dIsclose dis- dis disclosed closed close the purpose of the contest contest- contesting contesting ing cousins to show that one page of the document might have havo ave been Inserted subsequent to the signing signing- and witnessing Orvllle 01 Taylor raylor counsel for the cousins called attention to alleged differ differ- differences differences In the hand writing of oC the testators testators' signature on the first and last pages Marie Gartner a a. former domestic In the tho home and one of oC the two witnesses to the signa signature ture of oC the will admitted or on the stand that she could not read English very vcr well WH and had hod not looked over the document when she signed It Sho She admitted that she did not read even sven ven the the- clause directly above her signature nature and Knew new nothing of ot the content contents of oC the Instrument except that she thought she remembered a 11 ret ret- reference to fiancee Miss lIss Isabelle Pope I didn't look over o the will said the witness All Alt I did was WM to sign n It it She Sh denied telling girl friends that she had signed the will at the request of Mrs litre Shepherd and not of McClintock I James Hamilton Lewis former Cormer senator made his first appearance In the case and excited specula specula- Ion tion among lawyers la ers for Cor both sides side He admitted admit led that ho ho would be added to tho the number of or attorneys opposing Shepherd but declined to name his clients saying they would file a contest conlest later