THE WENDEL WILL
' PROBATE STILL WITHHELD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, January 25, (Received January 28, at 1 a.m.) Seventy-three lawyers, representing some 1,507 claimants to the Wendel will, filled the Surrogates Court to-day, to prevent probate. The court granted an extension until March 14, when nr* ther consideration will be given to the complicated case. All the'claimants were ordered to put their objections to the execution of the will in writing bo* fore that date. [A previous message stated: Attor* neys for the' estate of Ella Virginia Wendel, valued ,at between fifty and one hundred million dollars, are an* nounced to be conducting a search for the descendants of her uncle, John K* Drew, who emigrated to Australia in 1830. Rosa Drew Stansbury, a 74-year* old spinster, of Vickersburg, Missis* sippi, a distant rleative of Ella Wendel* has obtained an injunction to halt the-, probate of the latter’s will, under which the estate goes to charitable in*, stitutions.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 8
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159THE WENDEL WILL Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 8
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