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Is It Also A Forgery

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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IS IT ALSO A FORGERY

THE CHICAGO EXPERTS SO PRONOUNCE THE SECOND WILL.

In the Now Famous John D. Allport Case.-A Portrait of the Dexter Boy Who Became a Millionaire.

The newly discovered will of John D. Allport, the Montana miner, which leaves all his property to a Colorado sister, Mrs. Kelley and shuts off a brother and two other sisters, one of whom is Mrs. C. W. Miller, of Dexter, came up for probate in Montana Saturday. The lawyers of the brother and sisters have no fear of the outcome. It will be remembered that after Mrs. Kelley had been appointed administratrix of the estate on her affidavit that she was the sole heir and this action was set aside on the appearance of the other heirs a will was produced making her sole heir. This will was shown so clearly to be a forgery that her lawyers dropped the case on the trial. Just as a sale was about to be made of the interest of the heirs in one of the mines a second will was produced, which comes up for probate today. Chicago experts have pronounced this second will a forgery, and one of recent date being made since the first will was pronounced a forged one. The Argus, through the kindness of the Detroit Tribune for whom the Argus obtained the photograph, presents its reader with a good likeness of Mr. Allport, who was born in this county and for the possession of whose large estate so much litigation is in progress.