Sharp County record., 1878-06-28
London Their

American lawyers London. Ihelr
combined efforts, ,~"1-@ever, were of no
avail. Links were nting, and RECORDS
had disappeared [ Ehe English Jen-
nenoses fought thT american ones, and
the lawyers found ~.mselVeS Daiiled al
oyorv stem. An IriWiassociatiOn sprang
nm and $4,000 wi0rsubscribed to meet
the expenses of amir hjstgatlon on Oe,
bolf of the JennelgrS. $ of the Emerald
IsIp The cash wiz rhich the Ameri-
can lawyers were pl lded gave OUT ana
tho claimants, becoNing disheartened,
refused to continue h1eir subscriptions.
Finally, after the mANer mad Oeen al,
lowed TO remain in a vance for several
Years, a general conRv vtion of the Amer
lean claimants was lled to meet at
Walpole, n. H., in .,iy, 1908. An Or
oanization called the ulennengSeS ASSo-
ciation was efected,i hnd several thou
sand dollars for inVi-tigatlng purposes
were raised on scrip the value of 50,
the scrip emitting I'll purchaser TO sou
ont Of the first none recovered by the
Association. 1t is 81 rcely necessary to
say that the scrip ha not been redeem
ed to this day.
For the last fifteeL years scarcely a
session of the COM bon Pleas Court OF
England has been eld but what the
Jennengs case has ONE up in some
form or other, until ] is now a standing
joke among the members OF the legal
profession. ,)''N
Many ludicrous phases in the great
case are continually cropping out. AT
one time inquiries at the Bark Of Eng
land we're so numerous that seven clerks
were kept busily employed in the "Jen-
nengs Inquiry Department" One OF the
many Jennengses (sons) who brought
suit for the property was forced to ad-
NIT in court that if his allegations were
correct his mother must have been 63
wears old at the time of his birth. OF
the American lawyers sent to prosecute
the claim one spent portion OF the
funds intrusted to him for this purpose
in Jolly tour across the continent, and
finally lost the remainder in betting on
the DERBY races. About thirty years
AGO, one of the Connecticut claimants,
while travelling in England, accidentally
learned that Lord Howe was sojourning
on the continent. FhereupOn he went
to the steward of the London estate and
demanded possession. The servant,
who was alone in the house, thought it
polite to offer no resistance, especially
as the new conner was armed with
document which had'been obtained on
an ex-parte application from one OF the
lesser courts. Elated at his success, the
stranger made himself at home, and in
dulged to a plentiful degree in the
choice wines which were stored in the
cellar. The steward wrote to his Lord
ship, and the news soon brought
him back post-haste to Acton Hall.
There he found the intruder
quietly seated in an armchair in
the library making merry over the wine.
An order TO leave was met with a refusal
Lord Howe then directed the servants to
put him out at the dor, but he was of
muscular proportions; and d couple OF
well directed blows sent the servants
scattering in all directions. Another
attempt was made, and this time, with
his Lordship's help, the intruder was
thrown head foremost from the window
to the grassy lawn beneath. He was
never again seen in the neighborhood.
But the fight is once more to begin in
right earnest. The New Jersey and
Pennsylvania claimants, who have kept
the lawyers quietly at work during the
last five years, now declare that docu-
ment has been discovered which adds
the missing link to the claim and in
contestably proves their rig Int to the
property. Several conventions have
been held in Camden during the last
few weeks, and on Saturday the heirs,
in meeting assembled, resolved to ap-
point Messrs. j. McCook and j. Andy
Irwin as a committee to proceed to Lon
don, and in conjunction with Mr.. judah
P. Benjamin to reopen the case at the
autumn term in court. The claimants
are sanguine of the success of their lat
est effort, and are already individually
beginning to approximate their share OF
the 100000, 900, which are the latest
official figures of the value of the fund,
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