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a, MRS. KING WAS FOR Will of Mrs. King Found; ‘MRS. KING Remnant of Fortune To Kin; | BVENING WORLD, MONDAY SRPTEMBKA 10, 1917, YEARS VICTIMIZED BY BLACKMAIL BA ND 1, W. WW. SPENT $100 ro FOR “DEFENSE PURPOSES” es Figure in War Plots; Alone Holds Po owe? Three German Prince Swedish se en, ED FRENCH REPULSE the Latest, Means Is Not Me Mentioned Prien ts. aw Woman Think, However, There May Iie a Later Testament (peria! from 4 Bef Correspencent of The Evening World) CHICAGO, Bey. 10-—Gasion Bui feck Means, business manager for Mre. Maute A. King, the wealthy New Tork w . belleved dave been murdered at C. aN. Cy Aug. 19, ts not mentioned in the of Mrs. King. which bas been four im & safe deport vault in this « a4 which will probably be fivd for probate to-day, Means was th Witness of Mra. King’s death, vestigation of which is now oi the attention of the authorits three States. Mrs King’s will, produced by Amer fous B. Melville, her attorney up to three or four years ago, who succesd- 4 Im obtaining for ber the $1,000,000 tlement of the it against her husband's estate, wae drawn in 1914, & year before Means entered her life. Under its provisions the estate in di- wided betaween her mother, Mra. Anna L. Robinson, now in Asheville, NM. C.; her slater, Mra, Mary ©. Mol- vin, now in Concord, and her two vrothers, Paul Robinson of Muscogee, Okla, and William Robinson of Mor- rison, i. Probating of the document will be held in abeyance until it Is determined whether Mrs, King was « resident of New York or Chicago. Friends of Mrs. King believe it pos- ible that sho may have made a jater will, and eay if she did it will prob- ably be found in New York. Jacob Newman, a lawyer of this city, who has been looking after Mrs. King’s legal interests here in recent years, ways he has no knowledge of any other will made by her. Moans is reported as saying at Conoord on Yat- urday that he did not know whether Mre. King had left a will. But Mra. Robinson, mother of Mrs. King, is re- ported as saying that Means and Mra, Melvin were constantly urging Mra. King to make a will. ‘The will found having falled to re- ‘veal any motive for the alleged mur- Ger, Mra, King’s friends and the local Suthoritics are walt for @ report @n the condition of her estate. One report in circulation here ts ‘hat the dead woman's estate is prac- tically exhausted. Friends who are Fesponsibie for these statements admit be squandered « great deal of money, Uving at a $50,000 a year rate almost onlied husband's death, Attorney will remain in Concord to fepresent the family at the reopening ‘The report from Chicago that tho will drawn by Mrs. King in 1914, and (now held by the Northwestern Trust Company, was the last made by her, and the declaration of Gaston B. that he does not know whether had made a later will, have strongly Aisputed by New York ds of dead woman to-day. Ser clare, as Mrs. King’ vo perenseee her to make a new ‘will, wh! they assert, was placed fn his han is for safe keeping. Mrs. King was persuaded to draw up this document about a year ago, her friends say. No one seems to know what the document contained, but some declare they were surprised at the time that conditions arisen h tered Mrs. King’s views bout the disposition of her wealth, —_—— i Se reros Opening of 4,000,000 Acren Ot) and Mineral Lands, WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Favorable report on Senator Walsh's bill to open for use are 000 acres of of! and min- No. 3, a He Lande Committes, “ie Propo! nperation by the Government or the ing of the lands containing coal, sh and sodium. Fire, 20 sa: Gergt. Walsh and Patrolman Ratigan Police Station rescued twetty draught horses from a burning one-story stable owned by Ed- of the Bedford Street . " After she bad been in ; ing Involved In the war wei e ward Hill, coal dealer, at N: K de for notlo ator as much greater than prope coming Inve n the war were seen y a - jer, at ‘a 69 Kentl troduced she suddenly stepped into| for his arrest. No grounds for action Serie caminitie « proposed eS Yeeia Gandiy enue, viierns ure. early to-day the centre of the little circle and|could be found, and representatives of stil wee Th ah thas Aliiad ‘wo other horses were so badly burned} pointing her finger at Gaston Means|the family say they then sent to the @ action of the Allied govern- Phey had to be shot, and three were| dramatically announced: “Before God | hye Bede a retion at ieee | BELMONT PARK WINNERS, =| ments in refusing to permit Socialists burned to dea The damage was] this boy ts innocent of any crime,” B Re erse Miva, deihita’ excen, —_—- and labor delegates to attend the | estimated at $2,600. Mrs. Melvin wished it to be known | ton the deta’ y e's experl- | winsy RA ‘or Hillles two years! stockholm peace conference Is now that she was stanchly standing by|enve with the blackmailers, It could | old; purse 00; flve and a half fur- [7 oO" : - : Moans and decried the publicity that|find no reason to act. It was then | longs, atraight.—Helyale, 107 (Huston) |regarded as completely vindicated. he tase ce ; § to © 5, won; Mem Commenting on the disclosures, the py the ¢ase is recelving that private detectives and lawyers | 3,t2 ), 18 'to 2 0 ba y THE “OPEN-ALE SEASON at that private d i TRE 5G Be oom Bred elgremrnre tor 7H Hens Bae 9 | “LOUIE, THE 1E LUMP, ” HELD, |"th at, Hotden, who was employed by | ae | the Swedish Foreign Office knew the \ Mrs. King’s mother and sister in 1914 Ie {contents of the cipher messages ke Ddato | a 1915 to find Mrs. King and con } “But even if it did not,” continues orwged & Drage. serve her estate, shed further light on Pe the Guardian, “its responsibility is gangster and , 3 great. It gave vi i better known to the p u @ to-day 1 " ilbee , poe gunmar etter know o e police as | Me © two and a st ‘ot ot ich ¢ a |"Loute, ‘the Lump," and Dominick Dic} “Mra, King,” auld Mr. Holden, “was | 190 (smoot) rent | Suege: Une a be: and wee IN | dato, wlina “Perry,” waived examina-|et that time somewhore in tho West, | (erty Marlotte ih to 40,'| Sanh: Mee OF OaR: Dalligeten’ age lnet tion w aligned to-day bdefore| her mother and sister did not know | (Frankylin). 9 to 2.4 tod and our, | ner delligerente and neutrals, and | United ner, Hitchcock | where, She wad reported to be under |tird. ‘Time, 0.83 Only three starters, The Guardian assumes that tho and we J 0 Rite th ae new no of these t anne re Ferg oartt | the domination of what might be called Swedish people knew nothing of these W a ‘ballroom’ crook, Her mother and} BELMONT PARK PARK C ENTRIES. transactions and will hasten tap | | aister declared that this man had beea | necessary measures to clerr them- They were anxious about her races are af : has put on Sweden's good name, RESCUED WOMAN AND put}, Mit Race pnerery m rnte vs°22 GOUNT LUXBURG EXPECTED ” vod e B Jat A High Win | rival pe 1 employes the Burns National Nep las Biodia Detective Agency to look for Mrg,| and wp: 10 AVOID BUENOS AYRES a gt King. 1 also got George Craft to do fete Bee ine aaa Gan ON RETURN FROM VACATION WASHINGTON, Sept, 10,—Exclusion | Mra, King’s Chicago friends even. d to Mrx. Melvin that » | —_—_—_ “Low Found Bureau” tually wire | Toa Word Bul was probably In that cl) She cor | BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 10.—Count for thirty dey | muntcated that news to ari Luxbure, German Minister to Argentina, nat any of ° t ! ae | na vacation oreoet and Found t }turn passed it to the Burns ayer who Is on a vacation ean be left at ar i Raymond Burns himself located Mrs turn here té t paverticing King in Chicago and kept an eye brought about by Amerten's f " of hia Intriguing through the Swedis Switt & Company's upon her until Mra. Robinson, Mrs, Mintator Buenos Ayres officials pre- York City for the’w Melvin and myself react nicag $ jdicted he might be expected to depart best “Investigation soon showed that she — wrultw cleat at once for Chili and save the Argen- ' ' ‘ ‘ tlh | ‘ANY PONTS IN KING TRAGEDY MUST BE NOW CLEARED UP (Comtinued from Piret Page) vebt te the root, ¢ | Ae whe fell ning her ankie efforts to save be ft caused her vil (he trigger and the bullet struck her behind the Investigators, Aieorsait this theory. They point out that the revolver used must be cocked before the it can be fired, and sek why woman should have cocked it. When oformation first reached Concord that Mra King’s friends in the North | jon to fre-) is friends stoutly | hat had spoken of her ave arms Means and maintained that this was not #0; evinced @ liking for wr- and that she her visit to Concord. WOW COULD HE 6 IN THE DARK? WEAPON shooting, Means has strongly emph: sized Mra, King’s love of shooting. He has been at considerable pains to impress hia auditors with the fact and wanted him to purchase for her 4 small revol.or, In his story of the shooting, Means says that after he he put an empty revolver in bis pocket and loaded another automatic. Upon their arrival at the spring he wanted @ drink of water, At firat he says he decided to place the revolver on the stones beside the spring, but was afraid Mra. King might pick it wi sprine to the notched tree and de- posited the weapon between the spreading branches, Mrs. King west beside the tree. She had not desired a drink of water and had not gone to the spring, Furthermore, Means did not place the revolver in his pocket, as he had the first weapon. Means has ever maintained that the notched tree was an ideal place to lay the revolver. Solicitor Clem: it, in his visit, tested the repository value of the tree and, it is declared, he found diMfculty in balancing the weapon in the croteh. ;EAGER TO LEARN ALL FACTS AS TO LIGHT. | Ing the condition of the light at the time of the shooting. The survivi members of the trip to the spring ad- mit it was about 8 o'clock when the shooting occurred. The time has been positively established by Charles 8. Dry, the farmer whose place is near the spring. Dry was sitting on his front porch with his wife, and en- tered his house to get a cigarette, The cigarettes were beside the clock, and as he took one he noted the time. It was 8 o'clock. A few minutes iater when the farmer had resumed his seat on the porch he beard the shot that ended Mrs, King's life. Dry says it was dark and that the moon was low, This being the case, Solicitor Clement would like to have it ex- plained to him how Gaston Means could see the little black pistol in me hand of M K dis- é st permen to ‘amily home yesterday @nd introduced them to his people. The Means home is a fine old place in the heart of the little city, and South- ern hospitality is not wanting in the slightest degree, Means of the dead woman, was at his bom: and in the midst of a general conver. sation concerning the case Mrs. Mel- vin came into the room, Bhe was n dressed in black and appeared we and te ful. she threw up her arm iding the plete! and her convulsive owed a decided king for the sport during In Din various talks concerning tho thatthe woman wanted to go shooting and Mrs, Means started to the spring | S0, to put the weapon out of harm's way, he walked back from the | told his ®uests that Mrs, Mazie Melvin, sister |BY BLACKMAILERS: ROBBED OF $50 F = y¢ Woained Certificate of Insanity to Save Her Fortune, Dr, Riebera F. Burke of No. | Seningten Avente told to-day bow he |made out certificate of tunaey to aid to freeiog Mra Maude A. King from the lester of an alleged band of toternations crooks in 1916 It ow . private report, Supposed to have been destroyed | charged of ethos on the part of a lawyer former- ly employed by Mra. King’s relatives in giving ont the report for publica. be explained, and was He professional a breach ton. Dr. Burke added, aa a matter of justice to the memory of Mra. King, that he 1 carefully examined her in 1916 and found she had entirely re- covered and was sane again. “The jawyer,” sald Dr. Burke, “was engaged in 1914 by members of Mra. King’s family to protect her from the J clutches of a blackmailing gang, Mra. King’s mental condition at the time I made the report Was the remult of an Now developments Indicate that for eoveral years Mrs. King was the vic- |tim of adventurers who followed her |from place to place, helping her | squander her money and robbing hor. According to this new story, the Governinent was asked to ald in fri ing Mrs, King from the blackmailers | by invoking the White Slave law. | Federal prosecutors could not find any evidence justifying action and private dotective agencies were em- ployed. It w an operative of the Burns agency, assigned to the case, that Gaston B, Means first met Mrs, King in 1914, The crooks, who had met Mrs, King at Monte Carlo, followed her to this country, The gang got more than $60,000 from her, it is said, before her family was able to free her from them, and to tle up her fortune so they could get no more, Means then resigned from the Burns agency and took charge of her affairs, CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL MADE THREE YEARS AGO. The charge that European fortune hunters had carried Mra, King from State to State was investigated in 1914 by Edwin M, Stanton, /.ssistant United States Attorney, who sald to- day: “The Craft detective agency and a lawyer placed the charges before us. We were interested in the case be- cause the Interpretation of the Mann act in the Diggs-Caminett! case had not then been made, and the question of the effeot of the law was an inter- esting one “There was @ great deal of doubt about the facts, however. The woman alleged to be the victim was well along toward middle age, and it ap- peared to be stretching the Mann act to attempt to apply it to such a case, where the real reason for taking ac- tion was not to suppress vice, but to deliver the woman from undesirable companions, “Finally we found that it was not contended that a violation of the Mann act had been committed, but the Craft agency, acting for the fam- ily, charged that the law would be violated in San Francisco, We ad- vised the agency that, in the event of a violation of the act, the trial would have to take place tn San Francisco, and that the complaint should pe made to the United States District Attorney there.” The Craft agency and family law- Federal attorney in San Francisco charging that Mrs, King was in the clutches of a blackmailer and asking that often results in de-| yers then sent @ long telegram to the | ee | QUEEN SOPHIA ther pro-Germay Queen whore may have led her husband's againgt the Allies Agures in whe Is Queen Victoria », born the Princess Vietoria » (Germany) of Had chedit ber with having created a dis- tinetly pro-German atmosphere at the tockholm court had been dissipating the principai of her estate, I got into consultation with Jacob Newmann, who, I was informed, was an attorney of the | highest standing in Chicago, We called in George Woodruff, President of the Woodruff ‘Seuss Company of Joliet, LL “After was made Mra, Ki family, whereby her e in truy vid conference an arrangement which was satisfactory to This arrangement also pro- d for the posthumous disposition ntire estate, ‘Gaston Means came to me to close the matter up. I told him that he should have written authorization to act, He soon came back with this autborigation and that ended my con- nection with Mrs, King and her af- fairs, “I asked Dr, Burke for his opinion on her mental condition, That was the first step toward appumting a conservator for her estate, It was my judgment that that was the proper course to take—the appoint- ment of & conservator. “But after we saw Mra. King in Chicago and she was perfectly willing pluntarily into an arrange- ch insured the estate's con- servation there was no reason for eding further in that direction, King’s af-| Governnent otticials Representatives of Mrs. King stated the case as they knew It verbally to Assistant District Attorney Stanton and poseibly offi- ciais of the Department of Justice. ‘They were of the opinion that it was not a matter which the Government could take up in any way.” Before Mra. Robinson and Mrs, Mel- vin retained Mr. Holden as their at- torney they had appealed to the Dis- trict Attorney of New York County to prosecute certain men who they asserted had obtained domination over Mrs. King and were mulcting her out of her fortune, The District Attorney at that time was Charles 8. Whitman, now Governor, Mr. Whitman, according to this In- formation, after hearing in detail their story, told them {t was not a | the same stand as the Federal au- thorities later did. It ts ald that he suggested they employ an attorney of high standing. FINAL DEBATE IS BEGUN ON THE WAR REVENUE BILL Starts With Proposal to Eliminate Consumtion Taxes on Sugar, Tea, Coffee and Cocoa. SHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The final y's debate on the War Tax Bill start- ed with the consumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa and thelr substi- tutes, Senator Broussard moved for its |elimination, and Senator Smoot urged [retention of ail of the consumption 8. ngiish taxes were cited by the Utah Doapatones | s and all the members of her | te wan veld | matter in which he could act, taking | fe | | — | THE EX-CZARINA, | | Queen Hophte of Greece, a sister to | the Kaiser and @ Princess of Prussia, SPIES WHO BROUGHT ) BOAT ATTACK MAY HAVE HAD SWEDISH AID « ntinued from First Page.) {the cabled denial of Baron Lowen, Swedish Minister to Argentina, that he had sent or caused to be sent by the Swedish Legation any telegram from the German Legation, because the Baron has been {ll many months and probably was ignorant of what was Koing on at the Legation. The State Department is in posses- sion of the despatches sent by Count Luxburg, the German Charge, and Lowen, it ts declared, will be compelled to go further than a mere denial that he personally is involved. SWEDEN ASSISTED KAISER SINCE EARLY IN THE WAR. It is notorious that since the early stages of the war Sweden has been assisting Germany in every possible manner, Before Count Bernstorff dismissed one of his principal advisers was Minister Ekengren. Since the United States entered ine war Mr. Ekengren has never b out of sight of a Secret Service man, Despite the fact that he is supposed to | be living up to the best standards of ‘diplomacy, this Government taken no chances with him. It is understood that virtually all Swedish Ministers in the Americas are being watched In the same man. | ner, because they are generally sup- posed, on instruction from their For- | eign Office, “to look out for German: | Interests” in an unotlicial manner, The Washington Government has Argentini de may assume toward Swe but it would be gratified id thi eer PLOT SUFFIGIENT DAUSE FOR DECLARATION OF WAR, LONDON, Sept. 10.—Sweden's ac- tion in transmitting German cipher messages through her Foreign Office is sufficient cause for a declaration of war by England, under international law, it was stated here to-day. The acts of her Ministers are binding upon the nation, It {s declared, however, that the dis-| jf position of England !s not to enforce i British rights to this degree, Possibilities of all Scandinavia be- has 3 no particular interest in the attitude | 4 IS VIEW IN ENGLAND ViCTORIAy SWEOEN Jost her husband bis pince as king because of her pro-German intrigues Crar Nicholas'’s whfall came as much from t pro-German tntrigu- ings of hie wife, Cearina Alexandra, oa from his autocratic rule The | Caartna was born Princess Alix of Hesse and the Khine. tine Government the necessity of de- |manding his immediate recall, The revelations created a tremendous | revulsion of public feeling here, It be- came known to-day that the police had been hurriedly made ready yesterday afternoon on reports that great antl- German demonstrations were being or ganized in the city. The however, @d not materialize. La Bpoca, recognized an @ Govern: ment organ, apparently voiced the of- | fetal view when it declared ring to Sweden) “It 1s impossible to belleve ch | monstrous discourtesy, despite the source of the Information, But !f it is prove certain, the Government will denounce such conduct. Every comment indicated the situation | was considered much more serious | than the revelations of German diplo- macy. If the case against the Swedish Charge is proved, Buenos Ayres holds that the Swedish Foreign Office ts ap- parently involved. In this case the dis- courtesy to Argentina becomes not an act of one of Sweden's diplomatic offi- cals, but of Sweden herself, Is Enemy of U. 8. in War, Says Jobn lind. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. Inspired to speak by present r tions, John Lind, Special Commis- sioner w Mexico under Wilson and a leading Swedish citizen, said that while Sweden is the friend of the United States in peace, it has been its enemy in the war, snanbonelilfimiie CLOSING QUOTATIONS, With net changes from orerious close laska Gold Mine, , uaKpere t+t+l+thet] Com Pro FEES TRE EST FEF S Lbeeieiatet ltl tttel tite | ttt | ta SUESREREAY: PESTS +tit Net re Law, Clow. Mey Hy fet Hoe Uda 168 1ED. [——DANIEL, beloved brother native of Parish Rossmore, Irel e nN rr RENAN: omas, perary County. | neral from residence of Thomas Hef. tn 218 W, 140th at,, Wedn p 40 A. Mu thence Bt, Ci | Borromeo Chureh, Latest st |_ave. 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