She Looked For Her Relatives
AND FOUND CLUE TO A FORTUNE. Airs Kathleen Bartholomew, of .London, visited Dublin for a holiday. Then she went to Limerick, her father's birthplace, to hunt up relatives. “Oh," said a - villager at DruiT, “1 suppose you are inquiring about the Burke fortune »” Mrs Bartholomew was not—till then. Blie looked up advertisements in tke frisk newspapers for eiaimuum so netween foO,UI)U and £OO,OOO left by Martin Edward Burke, an Irishman, who died in (Sydney, Australia, in I'Jl’J, and who is believed to have been a relative of Mrs Bartholomew's grandmother, Mary Burke. Martin Burke, a secretive and miserly man, lived in the cheapest quarters, and always carried his own mattress with him. It was in this mattress that his fortune, in banknotes, was found after his death. Airs Bartholomew is now in touch with the Public Trustee of New (South Wales. New parlourmaid: “There's one thing I don’t like about the master, ilo keeps calling mo ‘my dear.’ ” Mistress: “Oh, you mustn’t mind that; it’s only a habit of his. Why, he even addresses me that way sometimes.’’
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 5, 7 January 1936, Page 5
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183She Looked For Her Relatives Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 5, 7 January 1936, Page 5
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