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Scrapbooks Containing Newspaper Clippings and Some Other Material on the Contested Will of Daniel Russell of Melrose, Massachusetts

Norman Francis Hesseltine

出版	1909
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZW-ntgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

A claim was made to part of the estate of Daniel Russell of Melrose, Massachusetts, by a man claiming to be his long lost son, Daniel Blake Russell. William C. Russell, the beneficiary of the estate, denied this claim and contested it. A second man claiming to be Daniel B. Russell appeared from Fresno, California. The newspapers dubbed him "Fresno Dan" and the first claimant, from North Dakota, "Dakota Dan." The matter began in Probate Court in East Cambridge, Mass., included appeals to the Supreme Judicial Court, and ended up in front of a special master, Gilbert A.A. Pevey. Pevey ruled in favor of "Fresno Dan." William C. Russell died during these proceedings. Daniel Russell's estate was worth at least $500,000. The matter continued until after 1916 and gathered much attention nation-wide. Pevey declared "Dakota Dan" to be James D. Russeau of upstate New York