£10,500 FOR A WILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

£10,500 FOR A WILL.

AFTER TWENTY YEARS.

Only a few weeks ago a reward of £10,000 was offered for the production of a-.codfcil to the will of the late Sir John Murray Scott. Now comes the offer of £10,500 for the production of a will, if one were made, by the late Mr. Henry Thomas Coghlan, of 14, Hyde Park Gardens, London W. Mr. Coghlan died on November 24, 1892. According to an affidavit filed in the Principal Probate Registry on December 24, 1892, sworn by Sir Henry Delves Broughton, ninth Bart., Mr. Coghlan died intestate and a widower, without child v or parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece, and accordingly letters of administration of Mr. Coghian's property were granted to Sir Henry Delves Broughton, a cousin gerraan, described as of 2, Waterloo Bridge, Waterloo Road, S.E., as one of the 'next of kin. . He ewprc the value of Mr. Coghlan's property as £678,893. A bond was entered into by Sir Henry Delves Broughton and the Law Guarantee and Trust Society in a sum of £1,357,679 for the due administration of the estate.

It was provided that this bond should become "void and of none effect" if a will made by Mr. Coghlan should be produced and duly allowed and approved.

It will be seen, therefore, that in the event of a will being forthcoming in res- ' ponse to the reward offered, no difficulty is likely to arise in consequence of the financial troubles of the Law Guarantee and Trust Society, Ltd., provided that the letters of administration granted to Sir Henry Delves Broughton be. rendered up to the Principal Probate Registry. Sir Henry Delves Broughton died in 1908. and apparently at his death the trusts of the administration had practically been completed as, in a further grant issued in July. 1903, to Sir Delves Louis Broughton. of Doddington Park, Nantwich (on" of the, executors of Sir Henry Delves Broughton's will) the nnadministered portion of Mr. Henry Thomas Cojdilan's effect® was sworn as of tho vain© of £901.