Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-14

Strange Case-Ths Mystery of a Persona
 al Advertisement.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-On Sunday the fol owing remarkable advertisement appeared in a morning paper:
 Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Is offered re flor for the he of ths will of William VI :" iliam Brown, who resided st bio Lewis house in Boston in 1873. Address H. M. WALKER
 Box 29s2 New York, America.
 MT. Walker is lawyer whose office is at No. 319 Broadway. Globe reporter called upon him to-day and drawing his attention to the advertisement asked to be furnished with details. The attorney hesitated and then said ''It is very strange case, certainly, but l doubt the expediency of making all of 1t public. However, if you promise to write what I tell you without establishment, will give an outline of the circumstances which led to the insertion of that advertisement In 1S72-3 two EngIishnen named William Brown and Alfred Williams resided at the Bellevue 17 Beacon street, Boston. The Bellevue is 8 sort of sanitary hotel kept by bio Lewis. After leaving the hotel tn ey lodged for time at the Winthrop House. They seemed to be men of means and ap- peared to have plenty of money. An Ameri- chu, NuOhe Aduo pro1er not to .StaGe, De- came acquainted with and contracted a warm friendship for them. Brown once told the American that he without family and l would leave him his property when he died. 1 The intimacy continued for some time, when the Englishman returned to their country. In 1277 Alfred Willard Williams returned to Boston and told the American that Brown had died, leaving his property to his Boston | friend as he had promised and making him, | Williams, executor of the estate''
 "One moment please, Mir. Walker" inter rupted the reporter, ''How much did the property amount to ?" About two million l dollars.''
 s'In land ?'' ''Some of it. Williams show ed the heir Browns will and obtained 8 pow CT of attorney and papers necessary for pro- curing letters of administration. He said he would go to England to settle matters con nected with the estate and since that date the l legatee has not seen or heard of him. All attempts to find him have failed. personal appeared in New York paper in December 1880, addressed to Ar. Browns American heir requesting him to send his address tc Willard Williams, executor, etc. The per sonal stated that the will case, which had been contested since 1876, had been finally settled in favor of the American, who is now my client"
 "What did Williams give as his own ad dress 2" He gave none. A detective was put on the case and he made inquiries at the newspaper office and found an original copy of the personal. It was written in an angu lar German hand, such hand as no Englist speaking person ever writes Below the linet intended for publication was written 'sGiv. this notice prominent place in your paper on the 26th of the month. I will call early in the week. 21st, 188O." The clerk who received the advertisement said it was hand ed him through his window enclosed in al envelope to which was attached $5 bill The cost of insertion was $2. 50, but the ad vertiser did not wait for his change and neve came for it.''
 ''What sort of looking nan was Will } Hams p' ''When my client made his acquaint