MIXTURE OF WEALTH AND RUBBISH.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12275, 22 June 1908, Page 4

MIXTURE OF WEALTH AND RUBBISH.

% Bank notes glued to the floor, and money concealed in all sorts of rubbish, were the surprising features of an estate, case engaging the Dub lin Chancery division,. Messrs Adams and Co., auctioneers and valuers, Dublin, were claiming against the estate of Miss Elizabeth Magan, an eccentric lady, who resided in County Meatb, for services rendered. After the lady's death no will could be found, and it -was thought she had died intestate. At the request of. the solicitur for tbe person who was believed to be the next of kin, Messrs Adam "and Son went to Miss Magan 's late :re?idence for the purpose of making an inventory of the property. From November Bth to December 16^1, said counsel, they were going through the most extraordinary ac cumulation of papers, documents, and valuable property that filled every room in the house, and even in the hall. The accumulation was such that it was only with the greatest difficulty that they" were able to g«t into the' house. In the course of their work Messrs Adams found the. will of the deceased', ernd

under that will chanties would benefit to a considerable amount. Messrs Adams had reoovered 'an immense amount of property, including £7000 in bank notss and securities of every fegnd, -The Master of the Rolls, in allowing the claim, said every room and corridor was piled high with looso papers, boxes, and parcels of all sizes and descriptions, and the litter on the stairs was almost knee-deep. Various sums of money were found in vesy peculiar Rnd unlikely places. .His Lordship said the record read like the inventory of a robber's cave. Sums of money were found in rubbish on the floors, in band -boxes and in a purse and two bank notes forjEl were found glued to the floor.