The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-09
O,KEEfE'S MILLIONS.
Claimants. for the S25.OOO,OOO Said
10 Have Been Left by the Late Gen.

Claimants. for the S25.OOO,OOO Said
TO Have Been Left by the Late Gen
O'Keefe.
From the New York Herald.
A few weeks ago there appeared an
advertisement stating that certain Ad.
iutant General Char les Robert O'Keefe,
of the British army, having died in Cal
cutta without heirs, his nearest OF Bin
were invited to come forward and estab-
lish their claim IS the colossal fortune OF
$25,OOOOO which the deceased soldier had
left behind him. On the 18th OF last
month there was published in these col
umns a statement Of q certain Mrs. Mary
Ann Madden, of Boston, Mass, where
In she gave her reasons at length
for supposing that she Is one
of the heirs. In fashionable restaurant
not far from the st. Denis Hotel, Broad.
way, there is smart, we'll favored man
of some thirty-eight summers. servlngla
a waiter. HIS name is Daniel w.
O'Keefe; and, unless he told the beholder
that he was, in fact, born at Calcutta,
those conversing with him would un.
doubleday affirm that he first saw the
light not far from "dear, dirty Dublin"
OKeete claims to be one of the heirs Of
the dead adjutant general whose name ne
bears. This living member of the great
OKeefe family with whom the writer
conversed yesterday, claims that his
father, Daniel o Keefe-who, by the way,
was born at home and not in Calcutta
was an officer in the First battalion,
Twenty-frst regiment OF Royal North
British Fusiliers. He died at Calcutta
while serving with mis- regiment in the
wear 1910. The brother OF the deceased,
Daniel, appears, singularly enough, to
have entered the same regiment while 1t
Law in Calcutta, and in the year 1910,
alter the death of his father, the New
York UKeefs-let us call him-returI ed
home from Calcutta, where he had gone
to see the light, and settled with his
mother, two brothers and two sisters at
Dublin. Here he went to school with
his brothers and sisters, Just as any ordi-
nary boy might have done. and nothing
of a strange or stirring nature is recorded
Of him until his fourteenth year, at
which are he enlisted as drummer
in the same regiment and battalion
to which his father had once belonged,
for, 1t seems, that the fighting portion OF
he . Keefe family had, for reasons best
known to themselves, determined to be.
long to no other regiment in the service
than the First battalion OF the Twenty
first N orth British Fusilliers. 1t was in
1854 that young y Keefe took to rattle the
laundering drum as his trade, and he
continued at this [ oisy occupation until
the year 1862, when he left the service.
Now, the theory of the Irish American
branch of the family is that the late
Adiutant- General Charles h. OKeete
was none other than the brother OF
the dead officer, Daniel Okeete, and,
consequently, uncle to the gentleman who
is at present employed in Broadway.
True, the connecting chain of evidence
does not as yet appear to be overwhelm-
ingly convincing in his favor, but ne
expects to soon establish in full his right
to the millions OF yellow dross that in
the far-off Calcutta await the coming OF
the rightIul heir. Our Okeefe, on this
side of the ocean, says that he has a
brother who is an Inspector OF the Dub
lin City police force, stationed at Radd's
Lane, and that this active servant OF the
British Government has gone over to
London Ito see about it." Of course the
present O'Keefe utterly ignores the idea
of person with such an unlikely name
as Madden having anything whatever to
do with the boards of wealth accumulated
nv the dead O'Keefe.