WINDFALL FOR A COACHMAN'S WIFE.
As an oufijome of having replied to a newspaper advertisement, the wife of a coachman reading in Polmont has received intimation tihat she will share in a fortune of a quarter of a million, left by an uncle, who died 'intestate in America. At the time of replying to the advertisement the woman was unaware that she had an uncle in America, but subsequent inquiries snowed that he emigrated from Ireland some forty or fifty years ago, and amassed a fortune, by farming in America. Prior to leavajg for the States he married, an}!, taking his wife with him, be seems to have had no subsequent commumcatums with his relatives in his native country, by whom latterly his very existence wa;> unknown. Dying without mak,h<r..left , a fortune of about £250,080, and this will be divided among his mu e remaining relatives, who should each ty '.cceed to about £27,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 4
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154WINDFALL FOR A COACHMAN'S WIFE. Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 4
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