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...Steuer soon belied his original observation concerning the difficulty of proving that "there is a Mrs. Erlanger." In order to show that his client was married by common law he had to show that Mr. Erlanger had acknowledged her as his wife. To do this he called in a troop of witnesses who had known her as Mrs. Erlanger. First were a housekeeper, an old friend, two assistants in a photographer's studio. Then came a lawyer who said Erlanger had feared that his brother would "make trouble"; the lawyer's wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing...
...March 10, 1930, the Erlanger will was filed. The will stated specifically that its author was unmarried. A few days later Lawyer Steuer filed his bill of objections, contending that the will in question was not the last Erlanger will, that at the time of its execution Erlanger was not of sound mind, that the will showed fraud and undue influence exerted by Mr. Erlanger's brother and sisters and Saul J. Baron, an executor of the will. Last October the matter came to trial...
...Steuer's opponent in court, retained by the Erlanger heirs named in the will, was able little Isidor Kresel. In 1915 Mr. Erlanger had accused Mr. Steuer of blackmailing him in a suit for breach of contract brought by an actress. Mr. Kresel had subsequently tried to have Mr. Steuer disbarred. Bitter forensic rivals ever since, Mr. Kresel and Mr. Steuer met again last spring in the inquiry into the management of the Bank of United States. Mr. Steuer succeeded in indicting Mr. Kresel for perjury. Partly because Mr. Kresel and Mr. Steuer were busy with Bank of United...
Testimony brought out the fact that Charlotte Fixel had represented herself as Mrs. Erlanger; that she had nursed Mr. Erlanger assiduously through his last illness. Then Lawyer Steuer began to bring in names of the theatrical world. Producer A. H. Woods said that he had met the contestant in Paris as "Mrs. Erlanger." Funnyman Eddie Cantor rolled his eyes when asked about his profession, said: "Well, there has always been some doubt, but I am supposed to be an actor." He too had met the defendant, in 1925, as "Mrs. Erlanger." When Lawyer Steuer had introduced 104 witnesses who over...
Lawyer Kresel promptly moved that the case be dismissed, heard himself denounced in familiar terms by Lawyer Steuer. For the defense, Lawyer Kresel tried to make it appear that Miss Fixel was a designing and tenacious mistress, whom Mr. Erlanger would gladly have deserted if he had known how. He called the publicity manager of the Erlanger theatrical enterprises who told how Mr. Erlanger had once denied a rumor that he intended to divorce his wife by saying "It is a silly story because I'm not married." A minor theatrical producer, Marcus Heiman, said that Mr. Erlanger...