BID FOR FORTUNE.
America is regarded as the land of rich uncles, and nephews and nieces cast their eyes westward. In the case of Mr W. L. Jones, a New York accountant, and his young bride, the position is reversed. They have come east to claim a fortune of about £IO,OOO left by Mr Richard Vaughan Janes, of Withernsea, near Hull, who died intestate about a year ago. Mr Jones, the eldest of several nephews and nieces, went to America as a boy, and has not much personal knowledge of the uncle by whose death he is to benefit. Th|& money lias accrued mostly from the sale of a farm at Withernsea. A lighthouse is built on a part oi the land, and for soiuq years, owing to coast erosion obliterating a mucli-used footpath, a, substantial sum was received in tolls from people passing through the farm. Ths late Mr Jones, like bis successor, was a lucky nephew, inheriting the property from an aunt.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2118, 23 May 1925, Page 3
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164BID FOR FORTUNE. King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2118, 23 May 1925, Page 3
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