The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-11-07
UNCLAIMED WEALTH.

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UNCLAIMED WEALTH.
Millions fn Banking Houses
Whose Owners Will not Take
II.
The New York Mail and EspresS
interviewed a gentleman whose busI-
ness is the settling of estates. He
was asked, "Do the unclaimed moneys
in the banks amount TO any consider
able sumF' and replied: at is said
that in each of the following named
savings banks of this city there are
upwards of 100000 Of unclaimed
deposits, which have lain there for
years: The Bank for Savings of New
York, the Seamen's Bank for Savings,
the Bowery Savings Bank, the Emil
grant Industrial Savings Bank, the
Bleecker Street Savings Bank, the
Greenwich Savings Bank and the Citi-
zens' Savings Bank. These deposits
represent persons many OF whom are
now dead and whose heirs know
nothing about the money. Instead
of allowing these deposits to go on
accumnlating, particulars should be
published at periodical intervals, bnt
this is not done. The unclaimed diyi.
dends in the hands of receivers of
bankrupt savings banks amount to
over $4,000. In the vaults OF the
safe deposit companies there lie plate,
jcwelry and family heirIooms on which
it is impossible to place value, and
which probably never will be claimed,
Year by year
THE STORE INCREASES.
1t is said that there is one account of
$4,000 in. the Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank on which interest has
been accumulating for ten years. Its
owner has not been heard from in that
time.
There lives near Allegheny, Pa,
shoemaker named John O'Brien, who
works hard for his daily bread. A
relation of his died some years ago and
left him 8l5,000, which is now in the
hands of the Accountant General of |
ireland. / was engaged to prosecute |
the claim aud was successful, and SO
notified O'Brien, who had merely to |
sign a receipt and release to get his
money. He refused to sign the papers
and has persistently declined, on prin-
ciple, as he says, to receive the
money"
"How is his strange conduct ex-
plained9'
"When the news reached the dis
trict in which he lives that he had
fallen heir to handsome fortune
Molly Maguircism was rampant, and
somebody circulated the report that
the money he was to receive was the
pay for his treason TO the order OF
course this was absurd, but O'Brien
took it seriously, and this day be will
not touch penny of the Legacy
"That is the strangest case within
your experieHcep
81 have another on my hands almost
as bad, but the amount involved is not
80 large. There is a man in this city
named Malone, who works as helper
in a bar-rooom at SO week. His
uncle died in Canada
LEAVING HIM A NICE LEGACY.
While the claim was under adjudica-
ton he came here and signed such pa
per as were necessary. Well, the claim
passed and ! so notified him, but he
failed to appear and execute the nee
essary receipts and release and get
check for bis money. Ihayc sent after
him scores of times, but for some un-
reason be stays away, al
though the money has been waiting
for him for three years"
"Perhaps he is insane or dead2'
''Not nj all. He is alive and well.
My messenger has seen him fifty times
and !, myself, dozen times since that
period.
"Another very peculiar case. A man
named John Lawrence came TO this
country from England in ls45, and
was murdered near Seneca Falls, this
State. He left a married daughter
who is now conducting
small store in q town in Connecticut.
This lady came to me and said she was
troubled with constant dreams, in
which she was told that she was en-
titled to money in England. am not
a believer in dreams, and so Ipaid no
to her story. But she was
persistent, and came again and again.
Finally ] made her tell me all she
knew Of her family history, and on
looking over some old files ! found
the names she spoke Of. The family
come from Maidstone, in Kent, and
her dreams have made her heir to an
estate Of 10000. Her claim has
been fayerably passed on, aud she will
soon be ID receipt Of her money. It
took long examination Of parieh
registers, old Bibles, tombstone IN
scriptions and faEiily trinkots to es-
tablish her identity
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