In re the Probate of the Will of Morgan

Thomas, S.

The evidence of the death of the testatrix, by being burned in the fire which consumed the Windsor Hotel, on March 17, 1899, though circumstantial, is entirely sufficient. She parted from her hairdresser at about twenty minutes past one o’clock in the afternoon, and declared that she then intended to return to the hotel, and, later, to go to the opera. She was subsequently seen in house attire on the ground floor of the hotel by two of the clerks, and by a guest, and then procured cash for a check of ten dollars, which she drew on her account in the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., and…