WOMEN: Common Law

Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, who was head of A. L. Erlanger Amusement Enterprises, Inc. and who controlled more legitimate theatres than anyone else in the U. S., died in Manhattan, on March 7, 1930, of uremic poisoning and cancer. With him when he died was a buxom 46-year-old woman known at various times as Charlotte Leslie, Charlotte Fixel and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger. By last week this woman was the central figure in a cause celebre. In order to secure what she believed was her rightful share in the Erlanger estate, valued in different...

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