Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-13
HEIRS TO A LARGE ESTATE.
Four Hungarians living in Ohio Sud
denly Made " ealthy.


CLEVELAND, Feb. Spy the discovery
of an old will in Hungary three persons
living in this city and one in Akron be-
come joint heirs to an estate valued at
more than 100000 forms, or about
$2,5OO,OOO. The story, which is true be-
yond question, reads like page from
book of fairyland. Early in the present
century there dwelt In Presburg, Hun
gary, an old couple named Weislowltch,
very wealthy and without children. To
comfort their old age they adopted a
young girl as their daughter. Mrs. Weis-
lowitch died when the adopted daughter
was IL years of age. Her husband, then
over 20, soon after married the young
girl, and two years later died. No will
could be found, and so the young widow
came into possession of the whole estate.
She married again, this time physician
only few years her senior. AT her death,
which occurred a few years after her
second marriage, her husband, she being
childless, inherited the property. The re-
lativeS of WeislOWitch claimed that viii
had been drawn up by him, leaving the
bulk of his wealth to them, and so brought
suit to recover their share. The case
dragged on for years, and the litigants
became scattered by removal and death,
so that it was finally dropped out of the
courts. Not long ago the physician who
married the young widow Of Weislowitch
was stricken down in the streets OF Pesth
by paralysis. Two students in that city.
sons of one of the living heirs to the Weis-
lOwitch estate, read of the incident in
local paper, and noticed that the name
was that of the man who, as they always
claimed, had cheated them out of their
Inheritance. They began an investiga-
ton, and found that it was the same per-
son. Pushing their inquiries further,
they ran across an old lawyer in Poland
who had been the legal adviser OF their
great-gTeat uncle. He remembered that
a will, such as the heirs alleged, had been
drawn up by him, and upon further
search the long missing document was
found hidden away among lot of musty
and lOng-fOrgotten papers. Its contents
establishes their claim to the disputed
estate, and as a physician, whose name
is not given, soon after died, there was
nothing in the way of their taking pos
session of the property they had so
long been deprived Of The necessary
legal steps were taken to confirm
their title and to inform the heirs in this
country. four in number-JOhn WeislO-
witch, or Whitelaw, as he is now called, Of
Akron, a milliner; Mrs. Frattner, Mrs.
Emanuel Goldberg, and Mrs. Emanuel
Rosenberg, of this city. Of the original
heirs of WeislOwitch only one family re-
mains-11 brothers and sisters-who,
with the exception of the above four, re-
side in Hungary. WeislOwitch was their
great-uncle. The estate consists princi-
pally of valuable lands which yield a
large income, and is one of the largest in
that section of Hungary. The Ohio heirs
are in moderate circumstances. They
will leave for Presburg as soon as their
affairs in this country can be settled up.
They have been very DESTROYS to keep the
whole matter a secret, but the story
leaked out despite their attempted Sc
crecy.