Of all U. S. judges who occupy themselves with what dead people leave behind, most famed is the Surrogate of New York County, James A. Foley. Last week this good & able Tammany man wound up the toughest job in his long career.
Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted...
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