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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1714, 4 January 1905, Page 14

Mrs Annie Burke Kearney and her daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Lynch, of Thurles, have inherited £IBOO under remarkable circumstances, reported by the "Irish Times.” Mrs Kearney's husband went to America 30 years ago, leaving her with a baby girl, who is now Mrs Elizabeth Lynch. No new® was heard of Kearney till last year, when it was discovered that he had died in 1895 at Baltimore, U.S.A., leaving a widow and children. His property was distributed among his American family, but one of the participants, feeling consciencestricken, confessed to a priest, with the result that the rightful heirs in Ireland were sought out. The Baltimore court has now ordered the restoration of Kearney's property to his Irish family.