The evening world., 1891-04-21
after KERRY kATE'S hoard.
Alleged Will Made by the Old
James Street Woman Miser.
Confesses that Sho Kidnapped Nc
Cues Little Girl and Glvcs
Her Half

Cl ,imants for the "A, roo In money and bank
receipts left by Kerry Kate Roach, tue Fourth
Ward miser who starved TO death, are begin
Ing to he heard from.
Kerry Kate died Aprl 4 at Chambers Street
Hospital, having been taken there the day be-
fore from the tenement at 60 James street,
where she had lived aud hoarded her gold for
forty years
Her brother, John Roach, himself an old
man at kllarnsy, ireland. Is 80 very poor
that he Is unable to come TO New York TO
prosecute his claim to the septuageuanan
miser's property, and now there turns mp
most slngu arly curious document purpor;-
inE to have been written by Kerry Kate her.
self and addressed TO the editor OF the Boston
Globe,
Tho letter is a sort OF confession and pro-
mise OF atonement She writes and coniesses
thar moro than forty years ago she kidnapped
the child Of man named McCue and retained
1t for some time. That the little girl called ner
"mama" That afew years afterward McCus
came to New York, visited the writer and spoke
OF his loss OF the little girl.
Now, at the time OF writing, Kate Roach IL
remorscful. and saws that she has two gold
soyereigns that belong to the child. an that
they arc the nrst two seued into her quilted
petticoat and must be given to the little grl II
she 10 ever found, together with half OF Kate
Roach's hoard, II she can be found alive.
The letter was written on sheet OF brown
wrapping paper yard wide BY two yards
long. ana Ii as follows:
"NEw YORK, March !, 1891.
"An English girl was banished from her
home because frightened him away.
lie did nsi come back for week and then he
took the little one away, and have never seen
her since.
"A few years afterwards McCue came TO
New York and told me he was married TO a
woman that he knew only n few weeks an
who did not know that ne had been married
before and was the father OF child Ro said,
however, that he was going TO tell her Rbout
these things as soon as he could md his little
girl
" DO you know, Kate, he says, ~ have
lost my chilli and cannot n ad her. but would
know her ont of a thousand by the little mark
on ner lcf: Jaw
''He felt very badly about the loss Of
the child, and as the little one used
to call me mamma made up my
mind that before became helpless
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peeu,ar shaped knees. m she fell down stur,
with me and dlsioiuted both her kneea j
nope II the little one she loved James McCue.
"Sne and her lover sailed for America aud q
| girl cald was born to them on the vessel May
10, IS4a The father of this child was about .
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