WANTED — CLAIMANTS FOR BIG FORTUNES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

WANTED — CLAIMANTS FOR BIG FORTUNES.

astonishing facts about “MYSTERY ■’ GOLD.

Who «y» Romance i* dean- Any body who dom need on'? scratth th. O* Hf* » "T 1 he <a,, L connected with a single remarkable | tircnnwtance—that every year n ""' s *n of people de latestrt- ->nd known heirs. leaving. s-'inc <>t tlreni. hundreds of thousand? ..1 j<”‘ n ' U * co a-begging '•«***' ,p,lt to “ Drove the shall*>w proposrtjon- . P A mute Witney to th.< nogtert to devW w.al’h. b .ys » In Poets’ fountain, tn lark l~a» ‘ - the earl?' Seventh's there di'd mt- state m Hertford Street, hard by. a Mrs. Mangini Brown, who* perso:•?»'£{**’ proved to b?' worth ab.ut £AJO.UM This nice little sum. m default ot claimants those who would have come forward in the ordinary cour-e were all chrd Mr? Brown having re chod thare of n i net y-thrve —tell to> the Crown. which f-ur years later spent £5 000 of it in erecting Peets *o‘ ,n tain, sitnplv because Mrs. 1 ™«n had »ften expressed a w.s.i thshould be a fountain on the spot Iresnmably it had then come to the eonrlnsron that it would retain her wealth . l.nt lone: afterwards a number of Italian* mad*' <rno<l tlw'ir claims an I divided the money sm-iii them tn equal •hares.

IN THE HANDS OF THE CROWN. St ran -e as it may s-m. it is none the less a fact that many fortunes which the Crown has obtained tn similar circumstances might any day i»e recovered by p’ople who could provo their right to them. Mr. William Y^unshush.nd. of I'lP.r Norwood a bachelor, died intestate. and fromi him the Crown sn iopo I in at»>ut Loi’.iw. Bi"ger »tdl was the e-ta'o ot another i> t'-state. Mr. C. M. Cockle el Onslow Fnuarc who left €6’20.1t?5 thoitsih ths was topped bv too cst.it *<4 Mr. H. T. Coghlan. <>f Hvde Park Gardens, who also (ltd intestate, leaving £0,78.839. These are .i few • ‘leading eases. There are numerous others. On«? tvpical of several is that ef Mr. J. MUprroft of Maryh-bone Road. Mr. Ipcrott was cne morning found t.eid in his bedroom, and the doctor, in the absence of any relatives, employer! a n-licitor to attend to deceased s affairs. When the house was searched a large •um of money wa- found, w hile.fnrther investigation r< suited in the discovery of a number of documents relating to property. Deceased’? es'ntc. in short, proved to be worth more than £lot),00t) •nd reverted to the Crown.

WHO M AS MRS. TAYLOR? A strange instance of the difficulty—- • difficulty of’en amounting to impns•ibJity—of tracing the life's liistorv of intestates oeeurrtd not long ago. Who was Mrs. Tavlor, wife of Mr. Hugh Lewis Taylor, a wealthv banker, of f’hi'limore Gardens? Tint was th • problem, and on the answer dopend«d—and still depends-the ultimate disposal of £50.000 or more. At first blush it se-med an “easy one,’’ boC3HSC when Mr Tavlor married he made this entrv in hi* diary:— “1889. September 11th.— Marriage of Constance Stuart. St. Mary Abbot’s Church. Kensington. She was bom August 29th. 1854 ; daughter of Colonel Stuart 12nd Highlanders. Her cousins. Countess cf Aberdeen. Lord Tweedmouth, Ixird Magheramorne; her mother. Mm Swinton, of Swinton, Berwickshire ”

In the marriage register moreovei, h«r fatbe’ i- described as of ‘ BroomMi. Argyllshire.” So that here, on the face of tilings, is a full answer to th*? question. But when efforts were made to verify ♦ho lady’s history a stumbling-block was encountered it every step. The noble personages mentioned in the diary de nied sli knowledge of her, regimental records showed that the 42nd Highlanders never had a colon?-! named Stuart or Steward, and “Broomhill, Argyllshire,” was non-existent. M'ho Mrs. Taylo- reidlv na . ind-ed. has yet to be craved. It is l-elieved. however, that she was a daughter of a private in the S’ffiforth High’anders, and w.os horn, not in I ; <4, but in 1811, at Windsor.

Here is a rimilar problem : Who was Mrs Helen R'ake, who died at Kenrington. intestate nn.l without known heirs, some thirty years ngo? And there is a fortune for anybody who can solve it The lady left £llO 000, besides real estate, and there is now. allowing for icmmnlated interest, a prize of nearly half a million waiting to be claimed. HALF A MILLION UNCLAIMED! Up tn a certain print Mrs. Blake’s history is cioar as noonday. Her maiden name was Sheridan, and she was born in Ireland of humble parents. While still only r. girl she eloped with an Engl Ah officer. General R. I). Blake, •nd with him settled in Ohio, where, •ho Een-cral being disowned by his family they established a millinery l-ns’ness. The general paid a visit to England and thrr died, leaving all he had to hi. wise. w*-o some years later removed tn S nth K "nsingt'm. Sn far. then, everti- plan:. B:rt nobodv has yet lees able t > p er-’ when and where Mrs. Bia i<annh were married and when a*>l whore -lie was born. To this end parish registers hare boon searched over •••- . ■:>! L.rge areas -vainly, not even a i'u.’ having rewarded the hunters. Several reni3i lc anomi.t; have been made to • re»t Mrs. Blake’s mystery from the Crown. Pom? vears ago, for inst.ir. re. -i • di it<>- introduced him self to a poor :• »u named Sheridan, then residing in I iveipwil, and staggerer! him by announcing th.it he was on ♦tied to the ob| Indv’s f. rrnne. Proofs? The man of taw ded u d that l o had tons of them ; and. .is a fact, he had a good deal r-f .-. J. .. .... v. limb included •ratcheß b-criri r insnrigtions. coffinp’aLs. an F nv>4 *••>:» nci.- g «>t .>’l. a musty old Bib’o. I-side this volume w -re manv led <ntiie-- recording th? brtb*. marriages, and death of th? family of ■Martin Sb"ridan.” vho»* name was writ ton ar the head of the rogjstrr Or.- ■ th" farvilv was Helen Sheridan, who w a- refilled t > in a -iih-«’on'-nt entry ■ "My > lie’--. Ir>- run -• ,r with a ytmn : off r serving in T'n’.t , C\«tb'. 1.-, bi-., »-i-.'ntel ,• »»• S. ot!..- d '• Fur-ka’ Til.' ii’v- terv ■ ' -i |! ! •! ? •rtvt'! -v U" f, i ■; •■. ’x i..- ;’ • poor r'lrnt. low,-ver. 11 the pre ’ wore clearly eta* lis t.tn lc v.’.r-'-liaMe ’

* GEORGF BORER VM. I’O’.KE- ' STONE.' i E"»nnl!v strange is tie*‘t-.r- a-tach's! I t» north -r leg fo-trr.c w** : ck is sti’l ! awnfbng ; n owner rh ; t \ fr I r Can- , ♦r»in C. L I. Wik,:.. F.dkestnne. : Ctr-t »:r -t.--. - r»?n ! scorned t- bav :* • r-f'»i-> f tiii-r- 1 ofore i Mn. Homs ri-i< h-n’i..>;ie a ••vonr- I ite at Cnn-t. and n.pnbv s-v-evwhere I On »he d t ! i of h s f .»h. r. b.evov..-. [ f»" ?brev 'in his co-nnis e-i 1!; t p, Guards. d'npjxd all his • . ’ »d« and I eought neclnsion on .? * ite ..t I Brentwood, where he • vei. pmany *

eccentricities, such as allew ng his property to fall into decay am compelling his horses to "pick up th4ir own Irving’’ in the park. Some years later he remove*! to rolkestoiw, anu there, un-* dec the name of “George Boreham, still more rigorously isolated himself from th? world. For months at a stretch lie never left his house, and when h.' did it was at night, long after most people had retired to rc-t. At his death th’ mystery which had enshrouded him became clear. There ’ ran n dark secret connected with his | life - a secret which was revealed to him for the first time by Ins father s L, i>| H’was that the lady whom he had t II ihen always known as his nun* was. in fact, his mother. As he never n-*rri*'d and kfi no will, lii■* estate, which was worth more than £150,000. icvrrt.d to the Crown. Aho:< ther there are litoo'iv m lhons of money Mt bv intestates alone tint arc sulf recoverable. Ciaim’ against some estates are now barred by tho Statute of Limitation-, but there arthundreds which th- Crown might be made to pav over to the rightful heirs, who no doubt would be .?ry glad t> nc.-ive them.