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Show OGDEN HEIR TO A LARGE ESTATE MRS. BULKLEY TESTIFIES BEFORE BE-FORE SALT LAKE COURT. I One of the Claimants to the Property of John Caine Child Was Born in Leadvllle. Salt Lake, June 15. An echo of a case In which much interest has been aroused here was heard Monday, when Judge T. D. Lewis, of the Third District Dis-trict court, held a preliminary hearing of the petition of four residents of the British Isles, who allege that they are heirs to a portion of the estate of John Calne, said to h a cousin of Hall Caine, the novelist, for the revocation of Utters of administration granted nearly two years ago to the Salt Lake Security & Trust company. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bulkley, of Ogden, appears with the English claimants as one of the supposed heirs of John Caine, whom she believes is her father, al-thonght al-thonght she said during her testimony yesterday that she has no absolute proof as to this fact. Mrs. riulkley desires to go east on a trip to remain several weeks and her testimony was taken at this Time, the further hearing of the case being fixed for September 13. Tho English petitioners for the revocation re-vocation of loiters of administration are Thomas Calne. of Cleator Moor, Cumberland county, England; Philip Caine, of Durham county, England; Ruth Williamson, ' of Cleator Moor, Lancashire. It Is alleged in the petition (hat the trust company is a debtor to the estate es-tate instead of a creditor, and that tho company would be adversely in terostod in tho estate. John Calne, who is said to have been born on the Isle of Man, died at Long Beach, Cal, on September 0, 1907, leaving leav-ing property in California and in Utah, the value of which is variously estimated esti-mated at from $10,000 to $50,000. Calne professed to bo unmarried. In her testimony Monday Mrs. Bulk-ley Bulk-ley said she thought Calne married her mother in Whitehaven. England. She said sho was born in 1883 at Leadvllle, Lead-vllle, Colo., and that she learned nothing noth-ing about tho divorce between her father and mother until told of it by Calne at Ogden after she was grown. Her mother, she said, told her nothing noth-ing of it before that time. She was of the opinion that the divorce was obtained ob-tained in Colorado. Her mother, Mrs. Anna Margaret Seellg, lives at Ogden. Mrs. Bulkley said she could remember little about Calne, whom she last saw about six years ago, sho said, having also seen him about two years before that time in Ogden. It Is said that an attempt will bo made by tho English claimants lo show that Mrs. Bulkley is the child of Mrs. Seellg. but not of Calne. It is said there is no record of tho supposed marriage. Testimony also was given for the trust company Monday by Frank E, McGurrin, who hald that he had transacted trans-acted business with Caine as early as 1S9G. Calne appeared to him to be rather peculiar and quiet. Calne said he was born on the Isle of Man, but that he left home early In life. Mrs. Charles Llndley, who kept a obarding house at Park City, identified a photograph of Calne as that of a man who had been at her house and who was visited by Mrs. Seelig. She said Mrs. Seellg brought a little girl, who she said resembled a picture of Mrs. Bulkley taken when a child. |