NO NEXT OF KIN

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 9

NO NEXT OF KIN

NEWSVENDOR’S SAVINGS.

LIVING UNDER AN ALIAS. Efforts by the New South Wales Public Trustee to discover the next of kin of George Davis, a seller of newspapers, who died intestate in October, 1926, have not been successful. After Davis death it was found that he possessed an estate of £l2OO. x . Davis was a well-known resident or Sydney, having sold newspapers at the comer of Pitt and Market Streets for many years. Proceedings were commenced last year by a woman who claimed to be a sister of the deceased, and the question of determining who were next of kin was referred to the Master in Equity. At the inquiry before the master it was shown that the deceased’s name was not really Charles Davis, but Charles Newton, and the claim of the woman who sought to establish relationship has been dismissed. Evidence was submitted that Davis (Newton) arrived in Sydney as an infant in 1853, and that his parents, his brother and sisters are dead. Five claims to share in his estate were received from persons in England and one from a person in Scotland, but none of these claimants was held to establish relationship. Among the papers of the deceased were tattered old letters written by servants of the East India Company from India in 1845, and a. letter from a soldier in the Bengal Artillery dated 1842. He also left a signed paper saying that he had “banked £9OO for Charles Cully in the Bank of New South Wales.” The question whether this constitutes a valid trust will probably come before the Equity Court.