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Show Court SeSs Aside Will Typifying SpisisSer's HaEred ol Men NEWARK, N. J. The last earthly wish of Miss Louisa Strittmater to show her utter contempt for men was rejected when a court set aside her will, which would have cut off her male relatives without a penny and left the bulk of her estate to the National Women's party. Neighbors said the elderly spinster's spin-ster's bitter hatred of men induced her to hoard her money in her home because she could not find a bank run by a woman. Part of her $15,-000 $15,-000 estate was in gold coins dug up from the basement of her home in Bloomfield, N. J., after her death on December 9, 1944. In setting aside her will. Vice-chancellor Vice-chancellor John O. BigeloAf said the woman's hatred of men went beyond the borderline of san!.ty. "Miss Strittmater regarded men with an instant hatred and looked forward for-ward to the scientific day when women could bear children withou the aid of men," the prerogative court justice said. "In 1937 she wrote: 'It remain for feministic organizations to mak. exposure of women's 'protectors and 'lovers' for what their viciou and contemptible selves are,' ' Bigelow said. j Two male first cousins, who hac I been left out of the will, and a sec ond cousin will share in the estate i |