The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-09
SEEKING MANY MILLIONS.
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The Prospects of the Association Of
the Hyde Heirs.
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AS long ago as 1853 the heirs of the
Hyde estate held convention in Bos-
ton at tho instigation of Chancellor
Walworth, who wrote a book of 1,446
pages succinctly tracing the genealo-
gies OF one branch of the American
portion of the Hyde family. The pur-
pose of that convention was the taking
of steps for the recovery of a few hum
dreds of millions of dollars supposed to
be lying in the Bank of England awsit-
ing Hyde heirs. A Hyde association
grew out of that convention, which has
been more or less active ever since.
At present Mr.. Morgan of the United
States Malt Syrup Company is its
President and MIR. HI. G. Parke, q
dealer in Chinese and Japanese curios,
is its Secretary. It has 400 members,
and there are 900 more persons enti-
tied to belong to it and proposed for
membership who have not paid up, a
necessary Formally when lost estates
are. to be hunted for. Several months
ago the association engaged A. F. M.
Army, formerly Governor of New Mex
leo and one of the expectant Hyde
heirs, to visit England and prosecute
there certain necessary inquiries.
Yesterday morning he returned by
the Cunard steamer Scythia, and late
in the day, at Mr.. Parke's store on
Front street, he reported the results of
his visit.
"1 searched through the flies OF the
London Times and London Gazette"
he said, tfor ninety-eight years past,
for advertisements for heirs of Hyde
estates and for decisions of the Court
of Chancery affecting the interests Of
such heirs. also examined thorough
'Iy the records in the British Museum
and in other places to which I could
get access for the purpose of obtaining
Information. From all my work 1
have come to the conclusion that it is
impossible to get the Information we
need without a lawsuit. The first
thing to be done now is to perfect our
genealogies so that they will stand the
jealous scrutiny Of an English court,
and that have no fear but we shall be
able to accomplish. Then suit of
discovery will have to be instituted
against the Bank of England, through
which the bank will be compelled to
produce its books in court for examina-
ton, and by that means we shall learn
positively and definitely what personal
estates are there, their amounts, and
whom they were left by. I made two
or three efforts to get into the bank,
and used the influence of some of the
highest people in the country, but
failed every time. The controlling
officials just wouldn't sec me. Chan
Gerry Court proceedings and an cxami-
nation by experts are the only way for
us to accomplish anything.
ttThere are believed to be about fifty
r,of1 focS IN no 11O, oF Il.
the Hyde heirs, and some of them are
known to be enormous. OF one of
them 1t is not too much to say that il
amounts to at least $3.50, 900, 900, and is
probably much more.
81 found that there was one Hyde
estate there, very largo one, for which
we have not yet found any heirs. 1t
was left by John Hyde, who went to
the West Indies long ago and became
a rich planter in Jamaica. After a
great many years he was compelled by
disease to return to England for a sur
gical operation, which was performed
by Sir Ashley Cooper, long before he
rose to be physician to the King.
When John Hyde recovered from the
operation he went to see Sir Ashley
Cooper, before going back to Jamaica,
and holding out his old cap to him
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give you now and putting it into the
Doctors hand walked off. Sir Ashley
kicked the cap after him, but servant
picked it up, examined it, and found
in it a check drawn to Sir Ashley
Cooper's order on the Bank of Eng
land for $4,000. A second time the
same physician operated on the plan
ter, and on that occasion received from
him 100000. On his way to England
a third time, for third operation,
some years later, John Hyde died on
shipboard, leaving no will. The bulk
of his estate is in the Bank of Eng
land.
"There is very interesting estate
now in question over there known as
the Townley-Chase estate, the princi-
pal heir to which seems to be Mrs.
N[ahau, wife of President Mahan of
the Obcrlin University. The family
of Salmon p. Chase arc also heirs of
that estate. It amounts to million
and a half or two millions of pounds.
"When I went over there took
with me a patchwork quilt made of
3,6Sl pieces by Mrs. Stewart, lady So
years old, which was commissioned
to give to Queen Victoria, and also
had for her crown composed of min