The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-09
MONEY IN MATCH BOXES.
~, pr.AoEs IN WHICH MISS MOI
FAT KEPT HER SAVINGS.

Rolls of Money anu OOAAAo 49,
+,a eccentric Woman's Room-Lots
worthless stuff Also Brought to
1,yht-Searching For Will.
From the New York Times.
zFiss Maria Moffat, the aged and eccen-
..io daughter of DR.. John Moffat, who be-
came rich and famous years ago from his
,a+onted pills. was not a woman who In
vited society. Many of her kinsfolk are
nav dead, and Miss Moffat herself was
ohont 70 years old when found dead in her
room at the Manhattan hotel on Sixth
.7a,re Sunday morning With her rela-
&C. who are still alive Miss Moffat would
Sc little to do. She lived alone In a
ho,al bought her own provisions and pre-
Dorad her own food, cared for her own
ION, and allowed nobody to enter it except
On very rare occasions, when the hotel peo-
Mo remember to have seen white-bearded
nan received in her apartments for very
h,iof waits of a business nature She had
No social enjoyments-she lived and died
alone.
knowing her habit of life, Miss Moffat's
few relatives did not disturb her by their
v,sits But when they read the
announcements of her death in her little
-oon thew came out early Co see about it
= M. Everett manager of the Manhattan
hotel. said at least dozen persons, several
If them old ladies, had called to ask about
Poor dear Maria and some of them
went as they recalled the fact that they had
allow ed her to go unvtsited during the
Among the callers was a young man
named j. Quackeubos, Jr., VINO was re-
membered at the hotel as having called
upon Miss Moffat some time ago, when she
refused to see him. Most of the callers
made d1ligent inquiry as to the personal et-
fects left by Miss Moffat, which were
slowed in the room where she died and in
two other rooms in the hotel. These per-
sonal effects were reputed to contain arti-
cles Of much value, but the doors of the
rooms we're locked, and Capt. McCullagh's
policemen refused to allow anybody to
enter the apartments pending the decision
Of the coroner's Office and Of the public ad-
ministrator, both Of which powers we're
supposed to have charge OF the property I'M
til properly identified relatives should come
forward.
On the afternoon following the death the
Rev. Isaac w. Brinckerhof, a Baptist
Clergyman, living at 62 Bedford street, and
H. Waller Brinckerhoff, a civil engineer. of
81 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, met in the
office of the Manhattan hotel These men
are the nearest of kin to the dead woman,
being her cousins, and it was agreed that
the Rev. Isaac w. Brinckerhoff should re-
main at the hotel to receive permission
from the authorities to take charge of the
dead Woman's estate.
When MIR. Brinckerhoff had established
his identity and shown that he had had re-
cent dealings with the dead woman as adj
ministrator of an estate in Troy, of which
Miss Motfat had been a legatee. the public
administrator said he had no further CON
Germ in the matter, and advised Capt. No
Cullagh TO turn over the responsibility to
the proprietor of the Manhattan hotel
jointly with Mr.. Brlnckerhoff, in order
that they might institute such search
among the effects as should disclose a will
if any existed. Mr.. Brinckerhoff said Miss
n MofRat was not the sort of woman to live
and die without will, although no such in
strument has yet been found.
81 The body was removed from the hotel
and placed in charge OF Undertaken
n Charles A. Benedict. The burial was
\ in Trinity cemetery, at One Hundred
aud Fifty-fifth street, where old DR.. John
q Moffat and his wife are buried in she fam
4 lily plot.
The police detailed to guard the room had
n been ordered by Capt. McCullagh to make
an inventory of the property. The alb
surdity of this order was soon discovered by
the men who tried to carry it out. The
floor of the room in which Miss Moffat died
was piled high with the sirangest things,
and to enumerate them would take DAYS
4 Old trunks and boxes stuffed with papers
heaps Of old wearing apparel, paper bundles
OF every size and shapes carefully tied up
with thread, piles Of old newspapers run~
ming back for years and including oil the
different papers in town, fragments Of food,
TIN cans and boxes, few pieces of furni-
ture and old rubbish of every description
covered the floor and were heaped upon the
bed and washstand. and all were covered
with dust
Miss Molfar had lived at the Manhattan
a motel for twelve years, and no chambermaid
N mad ever been allowed to enter tho room.
The oc 'upant cared for herself. only asking
occasionally for towels and bed linen She
q appeared to have kept everything she ever
got mold Of that she did not eat Innumer-
able little bundles were found, all carefully
ued up which, on being unwrapped, dis
closed paper dress patterns, or buttons, or a
couple OF oyster crackers, or something
equally worthless. Upon the wall we're
Moffat's pills.
Some other things, however, were dug
out from the wonderful chaos in which
Miss Mo6at had lived and died. Rolls of
money and coin were discovered tucked
away IN all sorts OF places, and quantity
VI papers whose value must DO studied out
oeIore 1t can be learned accurately, One
M package under the mattress contained
SI'4o', ana smaller sums were found else
where; Altogether, yesterdays first search
turned out 1887 in bank bills, sol 80 in
s5ver and copper coins, a depositors book
Oh the Union Dime Savings Society show
ing a credit to Miss Moffat of SO ,401 Is. of
W Wnl Stl the last deposit was by check on Nov
10, 1000 number of old fire insurance
pouclss, bond and mortgage for $1l, 900
upon a house and lot at III East Twenty
eighth street, given in 1869 by Margaret
thompson to Maria Moffat, and receipt
rom ron the United States Express Company
MI Ma package containing $1,000, sent by
MlSs Mottas in 1887 to Ira Shafer.
mr. brlnokerhof said that for several
Ears Ears ABOUT that time, Mr.. Shafer whose
inISf Is at 81 Liberty street, had acted as
I ,S ADVISER to Miss Moffat. Mr.. Shafer
a %eS , NOT at his Office yesterday and inquir-
els Ior MIN were told that he was in the
TTGuntry on his vacation. The Margaret
66N PSon who gave the mortgage for s11,-
w ~ dead. Her estate fell to her sister
VIM Is The wife Of James W. Brinckerhoff.
hhnosner cousin, who has Offices In the Bible
hoe James W. BrinckerhofP is in bad
tbo laal. and has gone to Pennsylvania for
a., "A quantity Of jewels and trInkets O. lit
n Tro ve1le was found in one of Mas Moffat's
kuauy boxes, Old panar match hoxas vvara