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The instrument went into detail in respect to this supreme condition . It set forth that Montgomery Brewster was to have no other worldly possession than the clothes which covered him on the September day named . He was to begin that day without a penny to his name , without a single article of jewelry , furniture or finance that he could call his own or could thereafter reclaim . At nine o'clock , New York time , on the morning of September 23d , the executor , under the provisions of the will , was to make over and transfer to Montgomery Brewster all of the moneys , lands , bonds , and interests mentioned in the inventory which accompanied the will . In the event that Montgomery Brewster had not , in every particular , complied with the requirements of the will , to the full satisfaction of the said executor , Swearengen Jones , the estate was to be distributed among certain institutions of charity designated in the instrument . Underlying this imperative injunction of James Sedgwick was plainly discernible the motive that prompted it . In almost so many words he declared that his heir should not receive the fortune if he possessed a single penny that had come to him , in any shape or form , from the man he hated , Edwin Peter Brewster .