CLAIM TO FORTUNE.
PEER A PETITIONER. ROMANTIC CIRCUMSTANCES. LONDON, Sept. 6. Viscount Bangor has added his name to the petitioners to the Crown claiming a fortune estimated at £2,500,000. There are romantic attaching circumstances. Marie Lepine, a certified lunatic, died in 1798. leaving, a fortune of £92,000, which the Crown claimed, as Miss Lepine had hitherto been believed to be illegitimate. Viscount Bangor and the other petitioners claim that Marie Lepine’s parents were secretly married before her birth and assert that after years of search the proof of marriage has been found on the register of St. Martin’s-in-the-Field. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 241, 8 September 1927, Page 7
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102CLAIM TO FORTUNE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 241, 8 September 1927, Page 7
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