Second Will Was Forged

Part of Allport Millions Will Come to Dexter.

SUIT JUST DECIDED

Forged Deeds, Forged Wills, Perjury Trial and Other Sensational Developments

David Rinsey has received a telegram containing the information that the latest newly discovered will in the estate of John D. Allport, the Montana millionaire, who lived, when a boy, in Dexter, has been unanimously declared by a Montana jury to be a forgery. By this decision, Mrs. C. W. Miller, of Dexter, is confirmed in her title to one-fifth of the Allport estate, which includes a quarter interest in the Minnie Healey mine, one of the richest copper mines in Montana. Mr. and Mrs Miller are at present in Montana, looking after their interests.

The Allport story has been told in these columns before, but now that another judicial decision has been reached a brief recapitulation may prove of interest.

Allport was an old bachelor who died in 1896. He was not in frequent communication with his family, and when he died, only one sister, Mrs. Caroline V. Kelley, of Denver, Col., heard of it. She went on and had herself appointed administratrix, setting up that she was sole heir of the property. While she was setting up the estate, Fagen Bush, known as "Monkey Charley," and several other Chicago swindlers, attempted to get possession of the interest in the Minnie Healey mine by means of forged deeds. While Mrs. Kelley successfully fought them in the courts, having their deeds declared forgeries, the newspaper notices of the suit reached the other heirs, two sisters, a brother and a niece who appeared at Butte, established their relationship and had the estate reopened. Then a will turned up, leaving everything to Mrs. Kelley. It was a paper said to have been sent back by a Klondike miner. This will was so clearly shown to be a forgery that the attorneys for Mrs. Kelley acknowledged the fact. The heirs then got together and were about to sell their interest in the Healey mines when last May another will turned up which was said to have just been accidentally discovered by one of the witnesses. It was drawn by the notary who drew the forged "Monkey Charlie" deeds. This will left everything to Mrs. Kelley. This will has now also been declared a forged one.

Besides these suits to get the estate reopened, over forged deeds and two forged wills, Mrs. Kelley was tried for perjury in setting up that she was the only heir, and acquitted on the claim that she believed her brother and sisters to have been dead.

It is to be hoped that the trouble over the Allport millions will now cease.