The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-05-19
A New Claimant for the Clarke
Estate.

Estate.
MRS. GAlNAS' NlvAL-A YCtSC lady
OF BALTIMORE rurrlSr ~ 4 CLAIM.
We extract the following rather
startling story from tie IittsburT
Ch,vuir|e of the 4tl, inst. Has
anybody in this latitude ever
heard Of that commissioner tor
the corporation Of tie city OF New
j Orleans!
According to the Baltimore
,1mrricun the famous Gaines liti. !
CATION is likely to be rendered I'M
mortal By tile infusion of young
blood in the case. The American !,
says: /
Mrs; Myra Clarke Gaines,
who's" contests in tho courts for
several millions dollars worth vt
property in New Orleans, left by
Daniel Clark. have made her name
familiar to all readers OF Eewsl"
pcrS, has at last found Il Balt!:
more claimant to at least Il part
OF what she considers her rroM!
ty. The story. us told by the coun-
sci OF the clainlcnt. although it
, has a tinyc Of romance, is iWp|ic.
lilly bc|i' we'd by him: and tie
parties Interested are SanS'''ne
that the Developments made by
them will lead to important re-
+ suits. The story is rs follows:
"Niss Mimi" Clarke is a young
, !adly about % YEARS Of age, and
t earns a livelihood by peddling
o books; Her father, who waS
. Baptist minister III this city, Dan
+ iel j. Clark by name, died OF the
yellow fever in New Orleans,
- where he had gone to look after
- some property at about that time
J. Miss Minnie was born il Baltl-
n more. Since his death his widow
&c has had to support herself and
IF two children, boy and daughter
and about six years attcrwarl re:
Of married, her present name beng
y Buckingham, and her residence
J., Ellicott City: n few days ago
!. the young lady was approached
by IL stranger, who inquired wl'eth
W er her father, Rev. Daniel j
ut Clarke, was not Il Baptist minis
he ter, and whether he had not trav
cled in North Carolina and ollie
'. Southern States while " clergy
at al man. The first question the lad\
l. answered in the affirmative, bn
,,, of his travels she knew nothing
Of and said that she would consul
cr her mother on the subject, MR.
Pr, BuckinYhman, after con"'llti>;
IT, the family bible, informed ne
'c' daughter that her father had tray
u cled in the southern States i'll tn
"a early years of his married llf'
M ", giving places and dates CORES
NO ,>on,ling, it is said, with the stran
ID gers questions. The stranger VIII
III. Visited the family, and attcrwar'l
Aat also Mr.. B,,ckihshim's counsc
7" then stated that he was one OF
ely commission who were in Mort
,''3 Carolina and tt4er States for til
''o PURPOSE of taking testimony IL
ho the corporation and citizens
" New Orleans in the Gaines sui
J. and while taking evidence had a
,;ertaincd that Il edn OF Dam
Clarke, whose daughter MI
ms, Gaines claims to he, was a Bay
IN" fist minister, who, after traveIi'
'N' in the Southern States, had mn
'';;' " settled in Baltimore. MI
ort Buckingham stated that She +
tn, members hearing her husband
ives mark that lie had left home
r,al account of a difficulty with !
ep- father, whom he represented as
"n'' very wealthy man, but WHO y
lace diSowncd him because ola QUAR-
.' with him on account Of the
I ,',a. mans associations. On one ot'
" ,Le sion, q short, dark.cyed won
the visited Clarke's family in l'a
been more during the latter's abSen
laws Upon his return his wife told II
t" Of the strange woman, whom $
Il oy described infinitely, and the Ha|
t'nS list minister, strai ghte'i'nG hinlS
' '"",' TIP; remarked with dignity Il
''rT the lady claimed to be his s's'
sold and that. had he been home,
who would certainly have ordered
e or away. Understanding that
any father Of her husband had d'So'
-"he ed the latter, Mrs. Enckln':h
rs !. OF never made an effort to "Acclt
%; " who her father-in-law was or "
Guu claim she had to his estate.
liars pcrSoi above alluded to,
each claims being u commissioner
the corporation of New Orleans
etc., Sanguinc that he can prove
from Rev. Daniel Clarke was the lr
VS. II, mate son of the millionaire vi
anu estate has beef. decided by
COURTS is tile property OF
,sent- Games"
;;,,ert \ local physici;,i thus desc'
il l.an...;:,,n NnrhnSh lInl ! I