Evening journal., 1892-01-01
HIs IouALs TAg vANogaeLrs.
A Wilmington Mans Fortune which He
Allowed 10 Sin Frnra HIn Grnan

Wilmington Mans Fortune which He
Allowed TO Slip From His Grasp.
Many Wilmingtouians have been in
terested ina paragraph which has been
appearing in the personal column Of the
New York Herald for several days The
paragraph Is as follows:
A Ii PERSONS ARE WARNED NOT TO
"A receive or hi Ia any property belonging "a
me. HARVEY FRIsBlE, No. 81 Conrad
street, Wilmington, Del.
Fr'sbie related queer story to a re.
porter OF the EVENING JOURNAL last
evening, and II he could substantiate his
statements he would be one Of the rich
men Of the day. He said my father
was retired sea captain and immensely
rich, and some young men in my position
would not have worked as did, but my
father had saying which was
that every man should support
himself until he was as years oid. At
least. Therefore, to obtain livelihood,
! had to work the same as any other man
| had followed In the footsteps of my
father and took to the sea. Ny father
was worth at least 900 600 and large
part Of this fortune was In United States
ooads and securities and In gold
There was secret connected with
my father concerning some Of this money
and when he found be was going to die
he told It to my mother Before he died
mad some trouble with him, and left
home, never expecting to return while he
was alive Before left lie came TO me
and told me that he set a large portion
ot his wealth aside for me, outside Of
what | would get when he died ibis
reason for doing this / will not tell you
AS | said before. ! went 90 sea, and was
shipwrecked and had my head injured
Il returned home just two weeks after
my father died My mother I'D not live
long after his death On Ter dying bed
she started to tell me what part OF the
secret ] did not know. Before she told
me all the secret she diei and carried the
rest 10 the grave with her.
When my father died be left Minor r.
Frisbie, my uncle, his executor. The in
jury to my head had taken away almost
all my ambition and made me stupid and
dull had an idea that there ought 10 be
some money coming to me and went TO
my fathers executor aud asked him
about it, and he said that he had 1t for
me and that | would get 1t in due time
went to him number Of times and re.
csived the same answer each time. 1
went to him about eigh. years ago an
asked him the same question as | had
asked before. This time he told me that
the money was ready for me
About year ago | was paralyzed and
when ! recovered It had become clear
that had been cheated ont Of fortune
all this time. | went to New York 10
look at the will there, and what | saw
convinced me more than ever that | was
being cheated ard that my fathers
executor was the guilty perpetrator.
Up to TIE time Of his death he was
supposed TO own numerous rows Of fats
and tenement houses. | know this be.
cause myself went to him and applied
for the position Of ianitor, but did not
get 1t. While was in New York tried
to get Ia the building OF the United
states Safe Deposit Company but they
would not even let me Ia there.
''Iengaged counsel In this city. but
as ! did not have as much money as they
wanted me TO give them at first, / had
70 let them 60. One OF my lawyers went
to New York, d when he came back he
said he had got the facts and be had a
clear case. believe he went to New
York again. At aay rate. next time |
saw him, he told me he could not do any
tAing A1y one that will take hold Of
this and win for me, / will give that
person 20 per cent Of the whole for
tune
The lawyers who were engaged BY
Frisbie were questioned to-day about his
chance Of securing the wealth. They
replied that II Frisbie had fortune left
to him years ago, be had certainly let 1t
slip from his grasp.