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Show - v 1 ' FRESNO DAN IS RIGHT CLAIMANT Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. "Fresno Dan." the California seeker for a share In the 1500,000 estate of the la'-Daniel la'-Daniel RueseJL of Melrose, is dei lart I the rightful claimant In the repori filed In tbe supreme court today by Gilbert a Pevey, master In the case who listened for eleven months to the testimony. ''Freeno Dan", says the Blaster, la undoubtedly Dauiel Blake : Russell, long lost son of Daniel Russell. Rus-sell. lakota Dan 'lie rival i laimani from i Ii klhaon, N 1 1 . id declared to I be lames Delherl Russell. He has ueliher the mental moral or iniel lectual characteriptca of the Russell (family, says Mr. Pevey. The master calls the court's atteu-tlon atteu-tlon lo the testimony given by two witnesses for th Dakota claimant, Which lie said was grOSBly false. The report Of the master settles the case so far as the facts are concerned and any appeal must be based on Questions of law The Russell will case has been before be-fore the Massachusetts court for tour years and has occasioned two unu snally long hearings, first in the pro bate court from the adverse decision ol which the North Dakota claimant I appealed, and second before Master I Pevey. It was In the midst of the probate hearing that the claimant, now declared de-clared to be the rightful heir Jointly with William C. Russell, another son of the merchant as discovered at Fresno. Cal. H was acknowledged by the Russell family. |