The Bennington Evening Banner

Ross R. Winans in His Will Leaves Dorothy Bateman $500,000

Baltimore, Md., May 1.-Miss Dorothy Bateman of Newport, R. I., is left $500,000 by the terms of a codicil to the will of Ross R. Winans of this city, who died recently. The will was filed at Baltimore yesterday.

Miss Bateman is the daughter of a Newport hotelkeeper, at whose house Mr. Winans spent last summer. He was in poor health, and she is said to have won his regard by her kindness and attention to him. The heirs to the residue of the estate, the full value of which is estimated at $4,000,000, are Ross W. Whistler, a brother-in-law, and Georges Revillion, step-brother of Mr. Winans' mother.

Neither Mr. Winans' son-in-law, the prince de Bearn, who sued the testator in connection with his wife's estate, nor the prince's children are mentioned in the will. To his son, Thomas George Winans, who married a Spanish dancer, and with whom the father was estranged because of the marriage, the testator left $200,000, in trust. To his "old and cherished friends," Margaret M. Smith and Louisa M. Butts, he left $50,000 each.