MYTHICAL LEGACY OF £20,000
INHERITANCE DENIED IN
COURT
The man who was reported to have inherited £20,000 from an Isaac Richard Seddon, in New Zealand, now denies that the money has been left to him.
Alfred Seddon, aged 46, of Coventry, was recently proceeded against at Wigan by his wife for £1025 arrears on a maintenance order made in 1917. Mr W. B. Vincent, for Mrs Seddon, said the arrears had been accumulating since 1918. Mrs Seddon, who had existed with the help of the Public Assistance Committee, recently heard that her husband had come into a fortune of £20,000. The legacy was left to a man named William Alfred Roland Seddon, although Mrs Seddon had only known her husband as Alfred Seddon. Seddon, in evidence, said he was living with a woman at Coventry, and had a child three and a-half years old. He was a painter, earning £3 12/- a week. He was not in a nosition to pay the claim of £lOOO.
Mr Vincent: Is there any truth in this story of £20,000? —No. Seddon was ordered to pay £1 a week on the order and arrears. He has given no indication of the reason for his previous statements about the fortune.
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Southland Times, Issue 23437, 18 February 1938, Page 14
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