The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-01-29
FORTUNES UNCLAIMED.
Millions of Dollars Awaiting Their
Owners.
How Money Which Belongs to Undiscov-
cred Heirs Accumulates in the
Hands of State Treas

Speaking roughly there is AT the pres
emit time over S., 900, 900 in hard cash in
the hands of the various State Treasur-
ers in this country awaiting the claim
of legal heirs. This large amount, says
the New York Telegram, has been de-
posted with the treasUrers from time
to time by public administrators, vi
this $1,000, 900 the New York State
Treasurer has about S250,000, and
although he pays out now and then GER
titled claims from the administrative
fund it keeps steadily increasing in n
ratio with the population of the state
The public administrator OF Brook yn
furnishes the following cases from has
record books;
Thomas Wilson sold newspapers in
Brooklyn's Twentieth ward for gen
Grafton. His route was an aristocratlc
one, comprising such streets as clinton
and Clermont avenues, in which are the
homes of millionaires, lie peddled ms
wares in all sorts of weather, appeared
on the streets in rain and shine every.
day and far into the night, and even
made feeble attempt to brave the Jury
of the big blizzard of March II, 1883.
He had no friends, no confidants, no as
sociations, and he lodged in the attic oil
a miserable tenement house. one oay
in the spring, last year, his legs refused
to carry him along his route, and ne
went for succor and shelter to the
BROOKLYN hospital, Here he was warned
that he had but a short time 20 live and
was told to communicate with ms
friends if he had any. Old Tom shook
his head negatively and died that night
without making sign. Five bank
hooks were found under his pillow,
showing SO, 900 or $1,000 to his credit IN
different institutions. The admins
traitor could learn nothing about him in
the banks, where he had told differ
emit stories about himself. 1t is thought
he was of Swedish origin and that his
real name was Nilsen, not Wilson.
Then, there was Joseph Langler, a
name common enough in the south of
France, in Marseilles, especially. Lang
Ter was also solitary man, living-or,
rather, grubbing--in an Atlantic avenue
garrett. He paid the janitor 81 month
for his miserable room. He went out
and came in, spoke to nobody and an
swered questions by shaking or nodding
his head. One day he went forth for
the last time staggered and fell at the
next corner, was taken into saloon,
thence conveyed in an ambulance to
Long Island College hospital, where he
died after few hours. In the pockets
of his coat were found bonds, mortgages
and bank books, worth $4,000 to the
owner; also will drawn up in excellent
legal phraseology and written in beau
tiful hand His signature was affixed
to the will, but it lacked the names OF
witnesses. So careful had he been in
preparing the instrument that he added
an explanatory paragraph, underlined
in red ink In codicil he revolles thu
will, so that he really died intestate
Rumor says Langler's heir is nephew
liyingin Marseilles, q sisters son, whom
if the administrator could locate, would
inherit $4,000, with one years interest
William Cato is another of the grea
1nItSbdltS lOt w lO0O lltilo thN aUihiiih
traitor is looking. Cato was no tramp o
news-vender. He was marine in tn
service of the United States, and ha
been one for such 4 length of time tina
he had only vague memory OF wha
he had been before. His comrade
had an idea that he was Scotch
and that is all they could tie
about him. He died suddenly las
spring, while still in the service
leaving one thousand dollars or so h
had saved out of his small pay, 1t
probable that an old woman living
Wigtonshire, Scotland, may be foun
with valid claims to this one thousan
dollars.
Patrick Gresham lived on Third ay
nue., near Forty-sixth street, Sout
Brooklyn, and Was in good ccircur
stances His wife died in the spring
1889, and the loss drove him crazy.
week later he committed suicide. /
left good deal of property, to which h
little four-year-old daughter was heires
His father, well-to-do New York Ca
riage builder, was the legal guardian
the little girl, but there happened ju
then to be in the house a sister of Il
ehild's mother. She was on visit fro
Ireland, and had arrived just in time
see her sister die. The night of the d
Gresham committed suicide the au
took the little girl stealthily out of h
bed and out of the house, went over
New York, and on the morning folio
ing sailed for Queenstown in the L
bria. Mr.. Gresham, the uncle and leg
guardian, reported the theft to t
police and they cabled to Queenstown
have the aunt arrested on her arrival
that port. Now, it happened that, O
ing to great storm, the Umbria COT
not put in at Queenstown, and so we
directly on to Liverpool, where no pol
were waiting for a handsome lady of t
name of Grove and her four-year-,
niece. Miss Grove and the child
still in Europe, and the legal fight
not yet been decided.
A Bath for an Exquisite.
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