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The Daily Titnes of last evening has this information relative to the Mollie Bennett will alleged to have been unearthed in favor of Jerome Schermerhom : Now comes a new phase in f1ie matter. Mr. George W. Loughitdge, of Ypsilanti, a dealer in tombscones, etc, was called into the Bennelt home some time in 1895, and given a copy of a will made by Miss Bennett, on or about September lst, 1895. The above is a portion of the article in the Ann Arbor Courier on the "Mollie Benuott" and which was copied in Saturday night's Times. Mr. Loughridge was seen hy the reporter of The Times in regard to the same and Mr. Loughridge denies it almost entirely. Said he : "The only talk I ever had with Mollie Bennett in regard to the disposition of her property was one time up at the cemetiy, when she came up to accept the monument I had erected there on her lot. She seemed to realize tbat she would not live many years and expressed a wish that her property was in shape so that she would not have to worry about it. I suggested that she rent the farm out for money rent and theu get a house here in towu and live. 'Oh, that wouldn't do at all. I couldn't do that as I should always be worrying about it,' said she, intimating that Jerome Shermerhorn would make trouble. 'Why don't you make a will and leave your property to your relatives as you maysee fit,' I asked. 'I haven'tgot any relatives,' said she. 'Well, there is Jerome out on the farm. He is a poor man and you could help him, couldn't you?' The answer she gave me was that to the effect that Jerome was a man who was very useful about the farm and in fact a man who was indispensable, but she couldn't leave all her property to him as she was afraid he would spend it all as soon as he got his hands on it. "I left her at the cemetery and this was all the couversation I had except that she wanted me to take $200 and care for her lot after she was dead. I refused this byreferring her to Mr. Rexford, of the Highland Cemetery association, who would take care of such a fund, So much for any coiiversation I had with Mollie Bennett about the disposition of her estáte. Now as to the will. The only paper I have ever seen that purported to be of this nature was one which Jerome handed me one day in iny store. He said it was a copy of Mollie Bennett's will and wanted me to take care of it. I put it in the safe and never looked at its contente. In three or four days Jerome came around and I gave him the paper but I do not know what the paper said. I have no personal knowledge of any will of Mollie Benuett's." "WIio is that liomely old tliing over there?" "Whatl don't you know who slie is? Wliy, she edits the column entitled "How to Be Beautiful' in oue of the morning papers." "Slie saysit's herfirstsummer at the seashore." "It was unuecessary for her to mention the fact. All of the rest of the girls knew it." "Made some fearful blunder, has she?" "Well, I should think so. Why she actually wore her bathiug suit into the water."