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Show WIDOW GIVEN j HARSH ANSWER 'Improper Conduct Toward Rich Men Charged By Two Stepsons NEWBURG. N. V.. April 19. i Charges that she was an 'ii ternatlon-& ternatlon-& flirt and hud been Improperly Intimate In-timate with rich men" were filed Tuesday Tues-day against .trs. Claire H Hosted Burton, Bur-ton, widow of Fredev ck Vincent Kur-ton, Kur-ton, millionaire cotton merchant, by, executors of his estate. Among the men named is ormer intimates of Mrs. Burton wa the latei Charles T Verkes, Chicago traction magnate Mrs. Burton's flrsl hushand was August Hyllested, a Chicago music, teacher, whom she .iivorccd In lv08. I The allegations were m:de in answer an-swer to Mrs. Burton's petition to be. made administratrix of her late hue-band's hue-band's estate, declared i" ex 1 1 - 800,000, pending n action by her io i contest the will on the ground Of Bur-1 'ton's mental Incapacity and subjection I to undue influences. The executors are hei two Stepsons, Frank Vincent, I Burlon. Jr.. and Van 1 uzer Burton; I her brother-in-law, John Howes Bor- ' ton. and Howard F Clark. MAKE SBTTTiEMEKT Mrs. Burton, a daughter of William J. Floto. a former Chicago merchant, married the cotton merchant. November Novem-ber 20, 1919 They were seperaled in 'July lim. Mr Burton died March LI, t last Mrs Burton was left nothing in I the will, which had attached to it I her sworn statement that she would I forego any claim in the estate because I of a pre-nuptlal settlement assuring her of an annual Income exceeding j I2Q.00O, The will left the entire estate to Burton's five children by his first' wife, who died In 1913 Fully a dozen letters alleged to h i been written to and by .Mrs. Burton In which men in this country England and Oermanv figure, are included In the papers filed in surrogate'! court 1 It is alleged there are more than 200: similar letters in th hands of at-' lornevs for the executors. PACK VGES -i ... n l"KS The name of Charles T. Ycrkes is; brought Into the answer in the fol- j lowing paragraph: "Prior to obtaining the divorce' from Hyllested In 1908) she had ae-j quired a considerable notoriety be-' nnuse of her relations with i-iiarb-s1 T. Ycrkes. deceased, formerly a real- i "After her divorce her record in the I United States, England and on the continent of Europe." the answer continued, con-tinued, 'generally at hotels, is one of i numerous and promiscuous relation? , ships with divers men from certain of whom she received Varying SUJUS of money at different times and Certain I of whom she importuned and prosecuted prose-cuted for money both in and cut of the courts of law." Many of the letters and documents j filed with the court ware said to have ; been uncovered by her late husband,! when he ransacked her trunk follow-i ' ins their separation in 1920 , The Burtons are an old Kew York ' family, the old home and farm having , been on Fifth avenue, near Thirtv- I ' eighth street. All the heirs am prominent socially. WOMEN ni.Ml s CHARGES "A monstrous fabrication," was thei : brand placed on the allegations against her by Mrs Burton "I don't know any of the men with whom it Is alleg'-.i I was associated,"! she continued "I don't know about anv trunk full of letters'. I had no such letters. It is not true that I lived! with Mr, Burlon before I was married' to him. I can't conceive the motives of the Burlon family in making such statements. They must know that such things cannot be said without their beinp called on to prove them |