CURRAN WILL CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 7

CURRAN WILL CASE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE. ' ; By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, July B.' In the Curraii will case, in which an i ostrtte of £50,000 is involved, Sir Wil- , Ham Manning, ex-Mayor of Sydney, gIV" ing evidence on commission, said that". Curran was much upset at his son i marrying a pantomime girl, and wrote to him as follows:-"Tom has coat (tt« i £IO,OOO sinco he went to Oxford. lift ; will not get another shilling.. I paid • : him £lO a month while he was inthe . House of Commons. Hfi also received £2 a week from the party funds, of which I was treasurer." George Curran, legatee, under the latest will, gave evidence that his father waa very strange after 1908, but h# never saw him put his coat on his leg* or his trousers on his back. He was not aware that his father imagined himself to be Solon or.Demosthenes. Monsignor O'Brien, of Sydney, gavo evidence in the Curran will case. He j said that lie visited Curran's, and heard ■ his wife taunting her husband _ with • pampering their son Thomas. Witness told her she was a most unnatural , mother; and was surely lacking in wifely | qualities. The testator informed | O'Brien that he drank a bottle of whii- /.j ky daily. Witness added that Curran i was a coward in his home and _wa« or J dumb as an oyster when his wife wi» • j present. ■'] Sir Edmund Barton, in his evidence, < said he knew the testator for many ; years. He seemed proud of his son Tom, j The latter gave evidence that M«< J mother disliked him and waß alwayi poisoning his father's mind against him. „ <