A FORTUNE AT STAKE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1427, 8 February 1888, Page 5

A FORTUNE AT STAKE.

A claim has just been rcnde on the Treasury of the State of New York for a fortune of £140,000, which has been lying there for nearly twenty years, by the children of Dr Kenealy, the well-known English barrister, who was disbarred for his course in the case of the Tichborne claimant. Tha romantic story of the claim^says the " Analo-Americia Times ") in brief is : — Tn 1819 a great uncle of the presumptive heirs, a Colonel of the 58th English Regiment, was ordered to Canada, and brought over with him two motherless boys — Edward and William. Upon returning subsequently he left the boys in charge of a French Catholio priest at Amberstberg, Ontaria. The boys, it eeems, grew tired of school life, ran away, and were never afterwards heard of by the old Colonel, in spite uf every means having been used to trace them. A few years ldter the Colonel died in England. Edward, the elder brother, went to Michigan, where all trace was lost of him. William, from whom the fortune comes, went to Brooklyn, waere lie grew rich and was known as a miser. In 1867 he died childless, leaving a fortune of £60,000. He left most of his money to found an orphanage, but before the courts the orphanage bequest was set aside. No heirs appeared, and the money was covered in time into the State treasury. There are five heirs to this fortune, and four of them are in America. The eldest is an editorial writer on the " New York Herald." Ona son is practising law in Manitoba, and the third son is a reporter on the " Philadelphia Press." One of the daughters is practicing medicine in London, aad one is a nurse in the children's hospital, New York city.