petition. filed in Orphans' Court "of the Attorney General, to get control of the assets of estate without producing the witnesses and documentary involved.'
Mrs, Garrett died in 1930, leaving memorandum disposing of approxi-itoly $65,000 of her huge fortune, mo will The eccentric widow, had lived in modest circum-in fortune, was a Schaefer before her again marriage to Mr. Walter E. Garrett, Philadelphia snuff manufacturer.
Consul Acts as Attorney According to the petition of the State, which also seeks to obtain the escheat on the grounds Garrett had no legal heirs, Em- ment is attempting to obtain the private 4s born out by the fact that P. Mowitz, German consul Herr Johann Schaefer's claims to be a first Mrs. Garrett. The court informed that he is unable the United States to testify The State petition "in all probability" the improve his health." Herr Schaefer win the $20,000,000 fortune, the German Government would receive 60 per cent. of the award and would "have control of the dispensation of the balance," the Pennsylvania Attorney General contended. the estate have been fantastic. The proposition was well summed up by el report adds, Mr. William M. Davison, jr, appointed by the Orphans' Court, when he began hearing claims three years foreign Jews have [12. According Jews made Hi LO ago.
"Because we are all descended from Adam," Mx. Davison remarked, "does not mean that everybody is an heir to Mrs. Henrietta E. Garrett."
1t the court decides that she had no legal heirs, the $20,000,000 will go into the State treasury.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Schaefers, ig brought to trial soon on charges of to defraud the State of the fortune by foreign records in an attempt to prove that Schaefer was Mrs. Garrett's illegitimate son, born before her marriage to Mr. Garrett.
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