The New York herald., 1877-03-01
O'KEEFE'S MILLIONS.

CLAIMANTS FOR THE S25, zoo, 900 SAID TO
HAVE BEEN LEFT BY THE LATE GENERAL.
o'KEEFE.
lcw weeks ago there appeared In tho HERALD m
advertisement stating that certain Adntant General
Charles Robert O'Keefc, OF the British army having
ded in Calcutta without heirs, his OF kin were
Invited I" como forward and establish their claim 10
the colossal fortune OF S25 900 which the deceased
soldier has lott behind him
On the 18th OF last month thero was published in
these columns statement OF a certain Mrs. Mary Ann
Madden, OF Boston, Mass wherein she gave her
reasons at length Tor supposing that she is tho
heirs.
In fashionable restaurant not far from the st.
Denis HOTEL broadway, there is smart, well favored
man OF some thrty-cight summers serving waiter.
HIS name is Daniel W. O'Kecfc; and unless he told
tho bchoder that nc was, IN fact, born at Calcutta
those conyers.ng with him would undoubtedly affirm
that he first saw the light not far from dear, dirty
Dublin" OKee'c claims to be OF tho heirs OF
dead adutant general whose he bears This living
member oil tho great O'kecfe iamlly with whom
writer convcrscd yesterday his athcr mel
O'kccfe-who, by the way, whs born home and not
IN Calcutti--was an oGicer In the First battalion
Twenty FIRST regiment OF Royal North Brush Fusicrs
Hc died at Calcutta while serving with his regiment IN
the year lslO. Tho brother Of the deceased Daniel
appears singularly enough to have entered the
regiment while 1t lay IN Calcutta and in the year ls4O
After the death oil his father, the New York . Kecic
he had gone 10 sec the light, anu settled with his
mother. two brothers and two SISTERS ut Dublin.
Here no went. TO school with his brothers
aud SISTERS just as any ordinary boy might
have done and nothing Of strange or
stirring nature is recorded Of MIN until his fourteenth
year, at which age be enlisted a drummer Ia tho
same regiment and battalion 10 which his father had
once belonged ior, IL seems, the Gghtng portion OF
the Okccte family had, for reasons best known to
themselves determined TO belong otner rcg-
ment in the tnan the First battalion of tho
Twenty first North British Fuslicrs II 1854 that
young Okccc took The laundering AZ hIs
trade, aud he continued at this noisy occupation until
the year 1852, when he left tho service. Now, tho
theory OF the lrish-American branch OF tho
family Is that The late AdJutant General
Charles Robert O'kceic was other than
the brother OF the dead officer Daniel Okccie and,
consequently, uncle to the gentleman who pres.
ent employed III Broadway. True, the connecting
chain of evidence does not yet appear be over.
whcminpy convincing his iavor, but he expects 10
establish In full his right TO the millions Of yell
low ross that In iaro Calcutta awit the coming tho
rightul heir Our Okeeie, this side OF the ocean,
says that he has brother who inspector Of tho
Dublin city police force stationed at Ladd's Lane, ard
that this active servant OF the British
gonc over to london 40 SEQ about IT.
OF course the present O'kecic utterly Ignores the
idea of person with such unlikely Madden
having anything whatever TO do with the boards Of
wealth accumulated by the dcad OKocic.