Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-02-13
HEIR TO AN IMMESsE FORTUNE.


 Millionaire - Remarkable story
 Told by a Quebec Newspaper.
 The following is a translation of re- markable story recently printed in La Justice, French newspaper of Quebec, Canada. It is self-explanatory and is of especial interest to Dr Godfrey Dubuc of this city:
 "LoNDoN, January 30.-.It has been dis covered lately that the bank of England has held in trust since 1886 fortune of SS0, ,0O0, ,O00 for winch no heirs have ever been found. Recently dealer in bric-a- brac discovered in searching among a lot of old papSrs that the heirs to the fortune are the descendants of man named Wood, numbering about 200, and living in America.
 | It appears that in 1886 a rich banker of Gloucester, Eng, James Wood, died leaving no known heirs, and his fortune, valued at $S0,000, ,000, was given in charge of the bank of England. Lately several of the descendants oe Wood, in | America, heard of the affair, and last Thursday several of them assembled in Philadelphia to discuss the question and arrive at soine means of obtaining its solution. Here is the way the facts were diScoVered:
 A man named Humphrey, d dealer in bric-a- -brac, received lately from Eng land, for his establishment, lot of old furniture, and in looking through the drawers he found number of papers which excited his curiosity. In eXamin- ing them he discovered certain docu- ments which led him to believe that the writer had died without his parents hay ing knowledge of the event. He spoke of the matter and induced number of the supposed heirs of large estate to begin an investigation"
 The publication of the above has led to the discovery of the following facts, says La Justice Ut appears that about 100 years ago a mysterious abduction took
 place in the port of London. A girl about twelve years of age, named Wood, belonging to very wealthy family, disappeared. It was discovered later that she was stolen by
 English sailors, but for some reason or
 other at the time the police were unable to discover her whereabouts. For a
 long time she was held on board shiE and was finally transported to Quebec
 From here the child was taken to Mont
 real. A short time after her arrival
 there the little English girl was adopted
 by the family of a farmer at Longueuil Later she was taken in charge by the priest. Father Robitaille of Longueil She was educated in the Catholic relig
 ion and married a man named Dubuc
 A son was born who Was named An
 toine, who also became the father of
 son, named after himself. This son hae several children. One daughter mar ried Peter Trudeau, blacksmith o
 Chambly and actually resides in Mont , real at the present time. Antoine : Dubuc also had two sons. one being D , Dubuc, now living in the United States , the other Nj. F. K. Dubuc, furrier o Montreal. The fact has been handed ; from generation to generation in tho family that the young lady, Wood, ofter
 said that she belonged to a very ricl T family in the old country. Ther, | also exists in the family of Lechevir Dubuc and Dr Dubuc of St Johns, whc spring from the same family, tradition I stating that considerable inheritanc, | | will some day fall to the Dubuc family We do not know Ill what degree tn, | families of Dubuc are connected, but thu
 coincidence of the discovery here de
 tailed and the traditions handed dowl :, in the families throws on the matter . character of veracity which will stimu late those interested to make thorougl e investigation"
 |. Dr Dubuc was seen by a reporter to day and for man with such fortuna I staring him in the face and almost with in his grasp, was perfectly cool. H. f says the Mrs Trudean and F. X Dubu '. mentioned in the article are his sister an, brother, respectively. He was born il = Longueuil, and from boyhood had hear, that some day fortune would come t. z. the family. The doctor will communi 5 cate with the other members of the '' family and it is probable that an at n torney will be secured to prove thei e e rights to the fortune in England. The man, Humphrey, who found tn
 papers leading to the discovery ask
 fifteen per cent as his share of the fol
 tune, and from the dispatch it woul
 appear that he has withheld the mos u important of the facts discovered. It
 probable that the papers contained !, confession written by one of the sailor n who abducted the child, Wood, wh }, placed it in the bureau to be found afte q his death.