HEIRS' LOSS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 9

HEIRS' LOSS.

MILLIONS OF MONET.

SCOTSMAN'S PECULIAR WILL,

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LONDON. February W

The Supreme Court, at Aosswrdara has rejected the claim of Janes Taylor. a resident of Woolwich, to the eaiafc* of Pieter Taylet Vanderhul>t. repattd to be worth six millions sterling. Vanderhnlst died at Haarlem in iTTS. He ordered that his money shookl nofc be toncheil for a century, after which, it was to be distributed to the male descendants, many of whom have Mac* failed to prove their claim.

The Court has now decided that the right of the heirs has been superannuated.

The ''Daily Chronicle** state* that Vanderhnlst was previously a Scotsman, who migrated to Hollaed, and amassed a fortune «s a merchant shipper. Originally he left thre* and a half millions, also four steel chests, whkh arc still unopcne.l, in the Haarlem Museum, the contents of which ar* tuskuown.

Fart of the estate was bequeathed to the founding of thirty-two almshouses at Haarlem. The remainder has now increased to the ram of six Bullions.

Claimants to this wealth have feeea legion, and they have come froa» Seo*. land, England and America.

One group of nine Scottish famtbJM pooled their resources to fight tbeckuns, but thev were unsuccessful.

James Taylor is understood to hvs* ba«l3 his claim on document* briitjr discovered in a secret drawer «f aa «U chest, which has been ai&bril snww 1875.