RESCUER RECEIVES £72,500.
New York, March 26.—Peter Andersen, a farm labourer of White Bluffs, Washington, has inherited a fortune amounting to £72,500 under most romantic circumstances.. , ' 11 r "*"* " ■ ■'y ; "... Andersen, who was too poor to buy 'wallpaper; had covored the walls of his cottage .; with newspapers; - Recently he noticed an advertisement iri bn'e'of these papers askJ .. ing for .information of his whereabouts. He replied to the advertisement, and on, . ■ establishing his 1 identity he was informed that he was heir' to the sum named. 'He s J received a draft of £1000 to enable him i to come to New York to collect the bal- ] ance. '. ' " ■■ ■: " - ■ ' ' ;■ : ; Andersen left Denmark in 1873 aboard ■' the ship W. J. Gottry, which was wreck- J ed off Newfoundland. lie was a powerful 1 swimmer, and, seizing Peter Knudsen, a 1 • drowning passenger, kept him afloat until they were able to crawl on some wreckage i ' . which floated them both ashore. After i ' much .privation both reached New York, , where they . separated. 1 • i l* Knudr-on ; made an immense fortune in . the glove ; business in New Jersey, and bebequeathed it' to-his rescuer. I > v. - ->:/■ ■■ ■■ -■ ~ -v:-. : ' *: ■ ->«*• I• ■ ..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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