HEIR TO A FORTUNE
THE HAND OF FATE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, December 14. John Dunn, of Knock Castle, Ayrshire, aged 17 years, who was heir to £750,000, went for a row on a lake on a night in March, and was never seen again. The Court of Session at Edinburgh has now decided that death must be presumed. The’brother, - David, who is an orphan with no living relative, thus succeeds to a fortune, which he will receive in nine years hence, when he is 25 years of age.
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Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 5
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94HEIR TO A FORTUNE Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 5
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