YOUNG WIDOW WILL FIGHT FOR MILLIONS OF HER FATHER-IN-LAW Disposition of Estate of Samuel S. Brown, Pittsburg Magnate, Reveals ScanJal. LEFT MUCK MONEY TO HIS LATEST PEI Girl at the. Last Supplanfed Wife of Dead Son in the Old Man's Affections Wili Was Made as He Lay on His Death Bed. "Better an old man's darling than a young man's slave-," runs the old Bong. Probably Martha E. Lewis will con cur, but Mrs. Grace McGoodwln Brown, daughter-in-law of the late Samuel S. Brown, Smoky City mag nate and multi-millionaire, can hard ly be expected to. Idolized and petted by her father in-law for 15 «years, taught to con eider herself his heiress, and intro duced everywhere as his daughter, she finds herself left a paltry $30,000, •while her supplanter, Martha E. Lewis, has been given a sum exceed ing $250,000. And a contest in the courts which will enrich lawyers and furnish sensa tions to satisfy the most scandal hungry dame is promised. For Mrs. Brown and all the rela tives of the dead millionaire assert that his latest will, executed on his dtath bed, was made under undue Influence and is unjust and unfair. Worth Over 820.000,000. Samuel S. Brown died last Decem ber. He left an estate scattered all the way between Pittsburg, New York and New Orleans which is conserva tively estimated at $20,000,000. He also left a will which is the bone of contention. Mrs. Brown, young widow of the dead magnate's only son, had been told that she was to be his bene ficiary. A goodly ' portion of the estate was to have been hers. Yet, when the will was read, she found herself cut off with a paltry batch of brewery bonds, and these togo should ehe remarry. But Miss Lewis, bitter enemy of the millionaire's daughter-in-law, bene fited to the extent of a quarter of a million and more. She had already supplanted the beautiful Kentucky be'le as the head of the old man's household before his death. That was the last straw; then came the open breach. It is a strange story—how these two young women came into the life of the millionaire. There were a son and a daughter whom the old man jib. ' /if^~" ~ ' - ,:Mre ■■■, 112 *\ J v /t /- ~X / -11 '"l I I -." ■■;'• ■ > -S; « °f' BRSWI yo</HcßfiOhwmo wm/rCot/fir [ l ' 1 .»**?: >!\ c£> TO GMi'fWCOOOM'//, fl. BIUJTGMSS VJ% JI £U.U-tfMi£lY rVMtfO 5/KT££M. \ ' idolized. When they grew up iicth- Id); was too Rood for them. Inception of Romnr.ce. Fifteen years a«o William Brown, the millionaire's only son. was sent to Kentucky to superintend the build ing of a railroad in which his father tvus interested. There he met a hlue grass belle beautiful Grace McGood win, barely turned 11. The boy's head was turned. It was plainly love at flr;t night. There was an anient courtahlp. and the youthful suitor won. Tim' day there came to the old man lu Pittsburg this its patch: I'rlneeton. Ky, H K. Ilruwn I'MtxlnirK. I't I nm t" l»- in.nr.fit i.i the <t«-iir*«t girl In the wo;l<l. W11.1.. That same day this wire went back to Kentucky: Pittsburgr, Pa. William Prown, Princeton, Ky.: Wait. 1 urn coming down thnt way this week. S. S. BROWN. For an answer this came back: Can't wait. WILL. And this was the reply: All ricrht. Go ahead. God bless you both. Bring her home. FATHER. But it was not so fated. Will Brown, undisputed heir to the larger share of his father's millions, did not bring his bride home. She brought him home —in a coffin. Almost the next day he fell ill and was dead within a week. The bride-widow, al most ill with her grief, met her fa ther-in-law and went straight to his heart. "You must stay here with us, my dear." said the millionaire, "and be my daughter, too. I know Will would have wished it so." Old Man's Daughter Dead. So the girl stayed along with the old man, and year after year made herself better loved by him. Then came another blow— hi 3 only living child, his daughter Nellie, died in Italy. "I am afraid my poor old heart will break," said the old man, bowed un der this added weight of woe. There was no one to turn to save his daughter-in-law now. He called her to him one day soon after the funeral, and said: "Stay here with me, for I am left alone. Be the head of my household, and when I die you will be the same in my will as if you were my own daughter. And why not? Are you not the wife of my dead son, my only boy?" But the girl did not need this prom ise. She loved the old man as the father of her boy husband. Her sis ter came to live with them and she took her place at the head of the Brown household. The servants were instructed to obey her in everything, and wherever she went she was in troduced by the millionaire as "my daughter Grace, my son's widow, dear to~"me as my own." Everywhere it was understood that the young widow was to be his heir ess. Folks were told that Mr. Brown's life was insured for SIOO,OOO in her favor. Martha Lewis Appeals. Mrs. Brown's sister married and she went back to Kentucky with In r for a visit. That was the beginning iof the end. When she returned she found that Miss Lewis had been aski d to live at the Browns'. "Grace," said the old millionaire, by way of niakinir clear how things stood, 'Just take Marty and buy her some t hliiU'C. and show her how to wear them." "Marty" was what Mr. Brown elect ed to call the pretty mif 1 he had in • stalled as hi- protege iu the bin house. Young Mrs. Brown balked some, but ih« did as she wa* told. But ahe refuv d to introduce the rlrl to her ■ frltju -, and she »Uil Mr. Urunun CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1906 mentor whfn h«» went to New York on matters nodal. Martha E. I*ewin wan the daughter of a boat caulker employed by Mr. Brown. When only a child In short dresses the millionaire had taken to lior because who reminded him of his dead daughter when she wan a tiny girl. When fihe grew older he niade her liis almoner In h lb many charities, and when she was out of her teens he had her made secretary of the Sun day school which he had endowed. Gifts were showered upon her just as the were upon Miss CJraco lirown. For awhile things went along smooth ly enough on the surface, but Mrs. Brown gradually discovered that she was being undermined. Miss Lewis finally got control of tho astablish rnent and ran it with an iron hand. Family .flakes Objections. The other Browns —brothers, cous ins and nephews—didn't like this at all. They demanded that Miss Lewis be at least sent to live elsewhere and that Mrs. Grace Brown be brought back from Kentucky, where she had gone, to give tone to the household. "Not for a minute," retorted the old man. "Grace has chosen to live away \\ PfitfryM/iolew/5 \eeomtrc/t : from me and I will not trouble her." Apparently, however, the aged mil lionaire was still fond of his son's widow. She spent a part of the sea son with Mr. Brown last year and as the Christmas holidays were approach ing she received a hurried call to come to the old man's bedside. He was dying. The young widow caught the first train. But as she sped through the darkness another will was being made in Pittsburg in the old Brown man sion. With a few strokes of the pen all she had believed was to be hers was blotted out. But no one told her this when she reached Pittsburg the next morning. Young Mrs. Brown was received with open arms. Twenty days later Samuel S. Brown died. During those 20 days the deathbed will did not come to light. Mrs. Brown's friends say that it was purposely hidden so that she would know nothing about it until it should be too late. The mil lionaire died, surrounded by his fam ily, while Mrs. Brown knelt at the bedside. Will Kept Secret. Never were greater efforts made to keep a will from becoming public. It was filed secretly. The authorities were ordered to keep it secret and meekly complied. The family lawyer furnished an extract to the newspa pers, but all reference to either of the young women in the case was careful ly eliminated. "That's all we care to give out to the newspapers," was the lawyer's curt rejoinder when pressed for an ex planation. But the New York Sunday W'prld's correspondent in Pittsburg made things so interesting for all concerned that finally the entire contents of the will were made public as provided by law. Then the storm broke. The feud became public property. Promptly there came a demand from the officers of the Mary Brown church that Miss Lowls resign her posltiou in the Sun day school. Forced to Leave Sunday School. The church had Mr. Brown's $70,- 000. They eared no longer. They had bowed to fits will In life, and they had Install*' I his protegt* to a posi tion of distinction In church affair Now they would have no more of her. At a public hearing she asked to resign, and she did. Then she announced that she In tended marrying and that was her ostensible reason for retiring. Hhe and Wllll&m AMhur Porter, a race Uack employe of old oitiii Uruwn s, had long been In lnv*. In fn't, they loved each other before he wu taken 111. Here were the provision* of tho will concerning the young women in thu cas«: Bequests to Martha Lewis. fiproml "l give and bequeath to the I nlon Trust company of Pittsburg (lint mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew ing ' urupany tr> the aggregate value of (30,(KM), In trust nevertheless, to pay tho nit interest am! Income then from to toy daughter-in-law Grace M. Brown for ami during the term of tier natural llt'a. If she so long remain a widow ami from ami after her marriage or death. In further trust to divide or dlatl buta the principal of said trust fund to the persons hereinafter provided fur In the ; case of my residuary estate, and I atl- ; thorlze and empower sa'd trustee, to sell said bonds, and to reinvest the pro ceeds of salo at its discretion." In striking contrast with this are the clauses in which Miss Lewis bene fits in the following sections of tho same will: Ninth.—"l give and bequeath to Miss Martha K. l.ewis, of the city of Pitts burg, one-half of the residue of my library wherever the same may be sit uate at the appraised value thereof, | she to have the right to select books to i the amount of one-half. I also give I and bequeath to the said Martha E.i Lewis my Astoria States Racing trophy ] and the box of silverware which Ire- ' cently purchased from Heren Eros. & Co." Tenth.—"l also give awl bequeath to Miss Martha E. Lewis aforesaid, fust mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew ing company to the aggregate par value of $30,000, which 1 direct shall be de livered to her by my executors within SO days after my death; and if for any reason the said bonds are not delivered within the period aforesaid, I direct my executors to pay to her on the first day of the month following rny death the sum of $125 and a like sum monthly thereafter until said bonds are deliv ered to her." The library from which Miss Lewis was empowered by the will to select one-half of the books is worth $50,000, and one of the most complete libraries in the city. The Astoria racing plate, which also went to Miss Lewis, was of gold, valued at SIO,OOO. It waa won by Sue Smith. Received Many Presents. By the will Miss Lewis got in nil SfSO,OGO. This was only a small por tion of her benefits. When she was 23 —her last birthday—Mr. Brown handed the delighted girl $20,000 in new hills. Only a few months before he had given her a beautiful big house on Greenfield avenue, worth $20,000. This Is where the bride will live when she returns from her honeymoon. She got $20,000 worth of diamonds, too, and in all $125,000 in cash, say Mrs. Brown's friends, before the old man's death. The Browns have taken the daugh ter-in-law to their hearts. She is again mistress of the old Brown man sion, there to stay as long as she pleases. W. Harry Brown, the broth er, even wealthier than S. S. Brown, who inherits the hulk of the estate, is understood to he against Miss Lewis' claim. There was a tragic scene when the will was read. Mrs. Elizabeth Wil lard, sister of the dead man, knew nothing of it. When she heard it gavo the young widow but $:io,000 in beer bonds she burst out weeping and ran from the room crying: "Oh, Sam uel, how could you have done this thing?" A si range feature of this Strang case Is that the millionaire provided bet ter for the young widow after her death than during her life. A niche by his direction has been reserved for her In the rich marble mausoleum out at the cemetery. There she will re.it with the others of the family's dead. And whither an old mart's fl< kle fancy chaiigi'l at the last or a design ing girl succeeded In a plot to secure wiallh at the expense of leputation and standing In society, Is the quvs lion I'rohably It wilt be aa*wertd lu th* courts. A WOMAN'S ORDEAL DREADS DOCTOR'S QUESTIONS Thousands WrltotoMr*. 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