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dying. the colonel called his sisier and asked Ruth to come to the hospital. Konick said. I he old man who had written in his diary "Thank God tor my mother and father and my sister Ruth" told Ruth that he had just two «eck,s to live and in tears, informed her that she was his "sole heneticiarv." Konick told the court. "You can explain away just about everything but you can't explain away that conversation with Ruth because dviny people don't lie!" the attorney maintained. "On sou imagine anything more sadistic and cruel than to call in his sisier and tell her that il he knew he’d left everything to Dr. Nielson? Why?" Konick asked.
He acknowledged that witnesses had described Earl Holmes as tough, excentric. an ex marine who cussed like a sailor "but nobody said he was mean and sadistic.” Konick asked the judge to read the colonel's diarx. to read what he wrote about Ruth. " I hat’s the reason whs we re here...Ruth died from this. This killed her," he insisted.
When the colonel's sisier learned that everything had been left to Dr. Nielson, she hired lawsers and. lellinw them that she'd never live to see the trial, asked if she could direct in her will that her brother's bequest be challenged. Konick continued. Attorney Larry Elgin told her that it could be done but onls if she lived 30 days after executing the will. The elderly woman who had stopped eating after her brother’s death looked Elgin in the eye and said "I’ll live lor 30 days but not much more so writt| the will." Konick related. Then, he said. Ruth told Betty Paleologos. her friend for 15 years. " 'You're the only person I can depend on to carry this on. Will you?’ Betty said yes and that's why we're here...We’ll carry it as lar as we have to until there’s no place left to go." Interrupting. Judge Robertson announced that he had a jury wailing in Fauquier and so would have to cut short Thursday's hearing. He defered ruling on both the defendant's motion to enter a final decree upholding the will and the plaintiff's motion to set aside the jury's verdict. "It could take as much as a year for the court to deal with this matter. said Robertson, noting that he’s had one case under advisement for six months already. He assured attorneys for both sides that he will read the lengthy written arguments they iubmitled nights and on
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