Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-09
ROMANCE OF AN OLD NIsER.
The strange story Of Th0s. white
q New York CYesus.

The Strange story Of Thos. white.
New York Cxesus.
New YoRK. December g. Thomas
White died this year on West Fifty-third
street, not far from Fifth avenue, with
out a friend to share the wealth which
he had first inherited and then in
creased. Ia his youth he came from
Ireland and established his home in New
Orleans.
It was at this point in the history Of
Thomas White that the history of an
other Thomas White begins. The ques-
ton of the paternity OF daughter is also
involved in the settlement of this matter
OF identity Of the two Thomas Whites.
The evolution Of the story is due to its
being brought before the Surrogate by
Wilcox & Jones, of so Broadway. in q
petition asking that the settlement Of the
estate of Thomas White and the decree
entered in behalf of his sister, Mrs,
Mary Francis Mortimer, Of Los Angeles.
CAL, be set aside in favor of his alleged
grandchildren, Emma and Eliza CRymo.
of New Orleans.
HIS LOVE AFFAIR.
When Mr.. White had lived In New Or
leans for some years he fell in love with
Margaret Burns, who was beneath him
in station, wealth and education. In
1885 White married her and she bore
him daughter, who was named Elisa.
A few years passed and Whites love
grew cold, and he, in 1S49, went to Cali
fornia, where he added to his wealth.
His vile, far away in the South, died,
leaving little Eliza a motherless child.
But before the final settlement in Cali
fornia White had gone from New Orleans
to Toronto, where he met J. n. Blake.
who became his fast friend. This
friend was the means of bringing out the
evidence upon which this story rests.
Eliza White grew up and married An
tonic Caymo, an Italian.
Of-this marriage there were boru two
children, both girls, the petitioners be-
fore Surrogate Ransom. They, as we'll
as their mother before her death, had
lived in New Orleans with family by
the name of Donohue. They never heard
of their grandfather and had forgotten
him, when one day they we're startled to
see an advertisement requesting infor-
nation of the whereabouts of Eliza
White, niece of Thomas White. The
sisters wrote letter conformity to the adj
dress given, in which they told OF, their
parentsge and their grandmother's deser-
tion by her husband.
THEIR GRANDFATHER's DEATH,
With much wealth Mr.. White had
come to New York and he grew anxious
to see his daughter. In 1885 he wrote
his friend Blake letter requesting him
to come to York. On Mr.. Blske's ar
rival White instituted inquiries in New
Orleans which turned out successfully.
though before the news of Eliza Whites
death or the letter of her children had
reached New York old Thomas White
died.
His estate was divided under letters of
administration given his sister, Mrs.
Mortimer, the nearest kin of the de-
ceased, as it was thought. These letters
we're issued in July, 1889, through an
action Of Mrs. Mortimer and her son ON
the British Consul. General in San Fran
cisco. Very strange we're the events
which succeeded their knowledge of the
fact that the two alleged grandchildren
OF Thomas White had been found in New
Orleans. They began search them
selves because they adhered to the belief
that it was in truth Thomas Whites
niece he was searching for, and they said
that he could not have married Margaret
Burns in 1885, he being at that time in
Great Britain or part Of it-stationed in
Canada. They found in New Orleans
the record Of another Thomas White
who went to California, and also father
of child named Eliza.
She had died like the others, and
stranger still, had lived in her childhood
in care of an Irish family, whose name
was Donohue. The records of the parish
showed this, though it was not on record
that che also had married Antonio
Caymo. TIE most astonishing part of
this is that wherever old Thomas Whita
went there went also the Thomas White
discovered by Mrs. Mortimer. The
movements of the two appear to have
been exactly similar until they fret
came to New York to live, when the
itinerscy of the other ceased. Thomas
White, the original, lived on West Forty
third street the life of hermit.
Sequel-The revelation of the identity
OF these two individuals remains for the
light which the court proceedings may
throw upon it.--[San Francisco Exam
iner.