A ROMANCE OF FORTUNE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

A ROMANCE OF FORTUNE.

By the dispoyerys an' old'wiii in"' Sun- ?! gary,'' tbree; persons Hying ! in .-Oleveland a Ohio, anfl ,ono;;in ■York 'Times),-become joint • heirs.: toi.an | estate' valued at ' more than ' 6,000,000 >r florin's, orrii)put.2,soo,ooodol . The story t] which is true beyond question,* reads'" like' a a page from a book of - x Early a in the preßenti century - therev dwelt -=in » Hungary, an. old; couple named v Weislowitch,. very wealthy, and:without ' .children; To comfort their, old age, they <j adopted; a young girl as their" daughter. " Mrs Weislowitch died when the adopted ? .daughterwas 17; years of 1 age. Her husband, then .over 70, soon after, married, j. i'the y,oung:girl, and two;years;later died; v ijNp'.^ill'couldrbe'found, and sp'-jtlie-.'young.' f, widow came into of the' whole a gstate,..; j Sfte' ! marrie'd' again/; this' 'time a : s physician, years lier"senior. At t her death,- which occurred a few years * after her second marriage,- her, husband,. T she being ohildless, inherited the property. •? The relativos .of .Weislowitch claimed that, * a will had been drawn up by him,' leaving the; bulk of his wealth to them, _ and so a brought' suit to recover their share; • The E case dragged on for years,' and the litigants ] become scattered b'y removal and death, so < that it; was,.finally dropped out of 'the j courts. Not long ago the physician who I inarriedthe young, widow, of, Weislowitch 1 was.stricken down in the streets of .Pesth 1 by paralysis.,'.TTwo students in that; city, 1 sonß of one' of the living heirs to the ; Weislowitch estate,, read pf. the incident in-, a local paper, and noticed - that - the r natne i was that of the man who, as they always claimed; hadScheated thetii • out of (their 'j inheritance, They began an investigation and found that, it was the'-same person'.; ] Pursuing; their enquiries still further, rthey ( came ao'ross an oldilawyer in Poland who i had,been the,legal adviser of'.;thejr, great- ! great-uncle, aHo 1 remembered that.'a; : will ■such : as|the heirs alleged, had Ijeen drawn ' up by hini, und uppnlfUrther/searoh'the l ? long-mijssirig'dpctiimeht waiiountl ■ hidden \ ■away atoong:a '1 o£ bf: rnlisty;?altfng-'&r- , gotten 'papers. ' Its contents',established ; their claim to the-dispvited'.estate:and »as the physician, whose' name is not given, i ' soon after died, there was. nothing in the ! way of itheir. taking possession of the property theyhad'so long been'deprived of. The. necessary. Jogal _ stepswere taken: to' confirm; their title, and to inform the heirs in-America—four. in. number—John lowitch', or Whitelaw, as he is now called, of Akron; Mrs Frattner,' Mrs Emanuel Goldberg, and Mrs-Emanuel Rosenberg,'all of New 'York,- .Of the original theirs'of Weislowitch, only"onti fatriily romaiins—ll' brothers and sistprs—- : iyho,r.wi.th, the exr ception'of tho'abdve'foiir;. reside id' Hun; gary.!' {Weislowitch was their'.great uncle, i The'estate consists '.principally of v:aluai ,ble> .l^ndj' which ; "yleld large inconie,' 'arid' i is one !of the largest' in jlmf section of j, : Sungaj:y. The Ohio,heiffii wa .iii modert|te i 'circumstances,'