A MIŚING HEIR.

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1910, Page 4

A MIŚING HEIR.

- ■ '* \ i; I'M \i: k M’.i i ■' w-. T *' ; i;v 11 i.rcmi'ii -t-Kit fi’-KSS association'.] I WKU.INi: i"N. !■<•!.! .1:1 r\ 1. An ext raordinaty ■'; I<■ ■ "I a I'heir ■r Mini IIIIIH-!"olial i"ll • - n II !•* I" I • M*‘* ■■■ petit i"ll ~f Ii 1 1 I'll 111 I'- rrn -1 < b.r 'III'" 1 111 ills ;is In 111.. disposal of TOGO in l '! liy him "ii bchalt "1 1.. "I " I,it. kw.-11, I wlm die.l in 1882. 11. Aus 1 ralin ! «.. \<-;tr- before. .■■ml hi; - ,j ii..| been heard ..f since 1883. In 1803 .. ;i !.-l: .-r pm |■ rt lie.; 1., h.- fi 111 him, 1 t-.icli 1 I ,-i \\ .• 11 ill <_r Imi X"Ii(• i 1 "i', m In. accord i ncly 1•\1 ■1 ’ 11 1. 1 .! a 1 1 1 ■ •■ • 1 "i conveyance ;iinl paid ..\vr the timney dm I" Ceil. I .tick wel i. 11 is now <) 11 it.- i-1.-a r ( j I hat l.ui-kweli was i 1 111 11 ■ 1 s.. n a ini an I ~ the money obtained I> y fraud. i.mkv.cH’s relatives in New Zealand a ini Australia hail long riiiielinh'il that he was ilea.l, hill iiii|iiiries were bid in; continually nimle about iiis share in the estate 1> y line Hubert Cil!e-pie. wlm rlaitneil to laeiw him in Cehar. and said he had a power of alteinev from him to collect the legacy. Then in 1901 a letter, signed by tie... Lind; well. Iml which Cii li - s|he a I terwa ids s admitted In have lieen written hy him. though at l.tickwell’s dictation, claim, ed ilie legacy. The relatives •.f tins man were thoroughly suspicions, and police and other inquiries were made, utterly failin'; to reveal the where-j 1 altouls of i.nchwell who seems to have died and been buried under an as stinted name as no record of registration of death can be found. The peti- . lion has been before the Court for five yea rs. To-day .Tnslice, Cooper allowed the I ’ll Id if Trustee lo presume that I.nekwell died intestate, unmarried wifb<.iil issue, and was ordered to pay to the next: of kin should there he’ tm claim on behalf of George Lnekwcll 1 during the next six months.