Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-26
UNEXPECTED RICHES,
TO a WoMAN's DREAM ONE YOUNG
MAN OWES HIS FORTUNE.


this city, and it all came about through
dream-nothing but dream. The
facts and circumstances which led to
this extraordinary inheritance are as
| follows;
There died in this city on April .,
1890. an honest. hard working machinist
Of the name of Patrick Shine, who. hav-
ing accumulated some little wealth and
knowing that his end was near. y few
weeks previous to his death decided all
Of his property TO his faithful wife, FL
len, their union never having been
blessed with children. The loss Of her
life companion Frustrated the widow
anu her grief was SO great that just two
months later-on June 8, ls90-Ellen
Shine, no longer able TO bear under her
| load of sorrow, quietly breathed her
| last, TO reiom her briovei husband IN
| another world.
| Ellen Shine died interstate and her
| property WAS taken charge of by Public
Administrator james G. Pennie, who at
| once advertised and otherwise searched
| for ;irv unknown heirs. So that II they
existed they could have an opportunity
| 20 present their CLAIMS. The statutory
| time expired. however. and no person
| appeared who on the ground of relation.
| ship with Ellen Shine laid claim to her
| estate.
| In the mean time. however. Daniel
| Shine. il brother of the late Patrick
Shine. and Mary Madigan and Ellen
Carey, his two sisters. filed petition for
| distribution of the estate on the ground
ru.,t il Was community property, and
that Ellen Shine having left no heirs,
they We're the nearest relatives. The
Ease was set for hearing, and on Aug.
| u, 1891, i'll department 10 Of the su-
perior court, the petition of the brothers
and sisters of Patrick Shine was granted.
| The court issued decree of distribu-
ton. but the public administrator. still
hopeful that Ellen Shine might have
some relatives living who might be
found. delayed the filing of this decree
for some weeks to gain time. This de-
| lay proved of the greatest Importance.
as was proved by the subsequent events,
| tAiuous, pttpiV VIM HhS" sshNh
Shine was Mrs. Mary Anne johnson,
of 40 Fell street, the wife of me
| chanic Mrs. Shine and Mrs. johnson
were both of them natives of County
| Cork. Ireland, and whenever they met
they used to exchange "reminiscences of
the days Of their youth. When Mrs.
johnson learned through the newspa-
pers that her old friend had died, and
that the public administrator had charge
of her property for the lack of legal
| claimants, she was greatly distressed.
and the matter worried her for many
weeks. In vain the good woman cudg-
| eled her brains in an endeavor to re-
member whether she had ever hes f
any one related to Ellen Shine.
could recollect no one.
The matter occupied her mind 80
| much that it is not at all surprising that
one night Aug. 80, 1921 after retiring.
still much perturbed over the fact that
| all that money should go to strangers.
Mrs. Johnson had her peaceful slumbers
| disturbed by dream. She dreamed of
Ellen Shine as a young girl home i'll Ire
land, surrounded by host of relatives,
and conspicuous in that visionary pic
ture from dreamland was the figure OF
the old parish priest. the Rev. Father
James, well known to the dreamer.
When Mrs. johnson awoke next nom
ing she remembered her dream. and
thought it strange that in it Father
James should be mixed up with the
Youthful days of her late friend. The
more she POWDERED over this, to her in.
explcable fact, the more she became
convinced that the proper person to
apply to for information concerning the
relatives of Ellen Shine was the old par
| ish priest, and she resolved ut once to
write to him.
Her surIniae proved correct. In due
time she received letter from Rev.
Father James, now known as Canon
Hegerty, in which he said that he knew
Ellen Shine well when she was still at
her Irish hoIle; that her maiden name
was Ellen Dnoley, and that her nearest
relative living was IL nephew by the
naine of joseph Cotter, residing in
village near Cork called Carrignaver,
The canon alto advised Mrs johnson to
urn the case over TO some attorney at
)nce.
.ha host.n.,; 70 III. ot,;c. -, Attorney
,I.xanaar,r vooaisong and nlaced the
,ybole matte. in lis hands Iuoniries
,n.da r,g,,l,ad !, the ,.nrrohor,,ion of
ho focts % stotod aud g,nd that the
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