10,000,000 DOLLARS.
“BOSS” CROKER’S ESTATE.
NEiW YORK, Aug. 28
The three children of Richard Cuoker, New York’s famous Tammany 'Mayor, have succeeded in the litiga'tidn against their father’s second wife, Beu'La-h, and will ipa.rticip.ate in the division of the Florida. Palm Reach .estate, which is valued at lO,oiX',lXk. dollars.
Rutjh-ai'd Choker siilcceede.l W. M. Tweed, who wa,s the first “boss” of Tammany Hall. Tweed and others left unenviable reputations, having been prored to have robbed the city •of millions of pound* by systematic corruption. Choker, an Inis.li-A.mer-iea.ii politician, was born at Cork in 18-11, -and educated in New York. lie became leader of Ta,in in any Hall in 1884. He was .’City Clh.aniibe.rlain in 1889-90, and retired from American politics in 1908. and went on to the turf in England, winning the Derby with Oiby. in 1907.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 August 1925, Page 10
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