LONDON MYSTERY HOUSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 18

LONDON MYSTERY HOUSE.

UNCLAIMED FOR TWO YEARS. NEARLY £2OOO WITHOUT OWNER. A London house of mystery has been emptv for two years. It is in Park Avenue, Busli Hill Park, Edmonton. The last owner, Miss Margaret McCoy, aged 76, was found dead in tho house, where she lived alone, over two years ago. At the inquest no one was able to say tho cause of death. Still the house awaits a claimant. Nearly £2OOO in investments belonging to the dead woman still remains io be claimed, despite world-wide inquiries for relatives, and furniture is stored in every room of the house. The fence is falling down and the gateways are dilapidated. The front windows are Jhidden behind weeds many feet high which have overrun tho once beautiful front garden. Who Miss McCoy really was is still a mystery She was not known locally, although she was believed to have been a school teacher and. to have' had relatives in Ireland. "Miss McCoy was a very kind woman," a neighbour said recently. "She was deaf, however, and people used to think her eccentric because she took little notice of what went on around her. No doubt she was a little strange, but. she often used to entertain friends. She had been in the iiouse ten years, and the way it was kept appeared to bo tho pride of her life." Neighbours contemplate making representations to tho authorities with a view io the house being let pending the appearance of a claimant.