CLAIMANT TO FORTUNE
CONVICTION FOR FRAUD £8,000,000 ESTATE NEW YORK, June 16. Thomas Patrick Morris, the discredited claimant fpr the estate of W,000,000 dollars left by the late Miss Ella Wendel, of New York, was convicted to-day in the General Sessions Court of conspiracy to defraud!. The Wendel fortune was built up by the father of Miss Wendel, and passed at his death a generation ago into the hands of her brother, Mr. John G. Wendel, who considerably increased it. When he in turn died Miss Wendel and her sister inherited the large holdings of New York Teal estate, of which it mainly consisted. The? two sisters, who were virtual recluses, lived to great ages in the family mansion in the heart of the Fifth Avenue business district, near the Public Library. Miss Ella Wendel, surviving her sister by a year or two, left all her property to religious and charitable organisations, explaining that she bad no close relations. When claimants for the estate by hundreds appeared from all over the' world, Morris, a Brooklyn house-painter, took first place by asserting that ho was a son of Mr. John G. Wendel by a secret marriage, aod had several times been acknowledged by him as such. He produced documentary evidence to support his claim, but this was soon proved to have been forged. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 7
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222CLAIMANT TO FORTUNE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 7
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