The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-09-16

millions left by James Tyson, the eccentric
misauthrope, who died interstate in Bris-
bane, Australia, last March, aged seventy
four years, has gathered fresh evidence
which, he says, proves beyond the perad-
venture OF doubt that MI. Tyson was II
native Of Cecil county, Nd. These evl-
dences came TO Nh. Roberts IN the shape OF
letters from native Of British Columbia,
who not only knew MIR. Tyson we'll, but
has a claim Of $50 900 against his estate.
In day or so MIR. Roberts expects to re-
oeive il a bundle, the complete correspon-
dence between his new client and the late
mulG-millionaire, which will complete the
chain Nj Roberts has been carefully weld
ing in quiet manner for the past six
months Armed with this new evidence,
and with the claim Of the British Co.urn-
bian, Mr.. Roberts will go to Australia this
fall or winter, and personally present his
many claims before the Queensland Trua-
tees, Limited, in tie colony Of Queensland,
the executors Of the estate, appointed by
the Supreme Court Of Australia.
NIr Roberts has evidence, further, which
shows that the fortune amounts TO between
$lo,OO0,0O0 and $4,000, 600, 10 far as is
known. II may he more, FOR, besides ex-
tensive holdings Of real estate bonds, etc,
in Australia, Mr.. Tyson had large mining
aud other property interests i'll Ne" South
Wales. One OF the Baltimore heirs to all
this wealth, according TO the Tyson family
tree, which Attorney Roberts has prepared
after weeks Of investigation, is Miss Eliza
J. Black, of Aisquith and Thompson
streets, whose share, it is estimated, will
amount TO about 81, 100000. Miss Black
appears to be one Of the most direct heirs.
Her mother, now dead, was Miss Eliza J..
Tyson, of Baltimore, before her marriage TO
Mr.. d. II. Black, who is also deceased, and
was niece of James Tyson.
Letters already in the possession OF Mr.,
Roberts show Mr.. Tyson to have been a
most peculiar man in every respect Tilted
early in life by girl whom he loved to
desperation he lost all faith in humanity,
and became hermit-lived only to make
money and to save it, not for its CONNER
cial value, but simply to look at it. He
was, as the miser in the "Chimes of Nor
mandy" only worse, if anything.
While boarding up all this wealth he
never spent a penny for anything. He
never used soap preferring to wash his
face and hands with sand, which he
boarded up in great piles about his lonely
mountain cabin of logs and earth. He
made his own shoes and clothing out of
skins Of wild animals which he slew. lie
was like the old Biblical patrarchs, some
what, in his mode of lving-locusts and
wild honey and other products Of the
mountain forests constituted his daily
menu.
a novelist never weaved prettier story
than that which tells of James Tyson's
romantic life. 1t proves that, after all,
truth is stranger than fiction. The young
lady who Tilted Tyson while he was OF the
onward road to fortune and fame was Miss
Olive Harold, the daughter of Villa o.
Harold, wealthy sheepraiser from Eng,
land. He met the young lady through
her father, with whom young Tyson had
business relations.
The father of the girl objected to the at.
tention Of young Tyson, and the lovers
agreed to quit the colony together. When
the time came to leave, however the young
lady repented, and, as between her father
and her lover, she chose the former and
Tilted the latter. This little incident
changed the whole life of James Tyson.
He never went into society afterwaId, had
no friends and no associates, practiced the
strictest economy, and denied himself even
what are supposed to be the necessaries of
life.
He despised the amiable weakness shown
by men OF our days of wearing white shirts
and collars, and never spent farthing for
these useless articles from the time his love
forsook him until the time of his death,
which occurred about fifty years afterwards.
Mr.. Tyson never married, consequently
he died bachelor, and left no relatives in
Australia.
Mr.. Tyson left his home in Cecil county
about fifty years ago. He was quite young.
Having a taste for the sea, he went to
Liverpool with the captain of an English
vessel. After wandering about that city
for several months, he went to Australia,
where he hired himself to sheepraiser
Being frugal and industrious, Tyson saved
his small earnings, and in the course of q
few years he embarked in the same bust.
ness for himself. Fortune seemed to smile
on the lad, and by strict economy and ap
plication to business, he succeeded in
amassing as large fortune as was evel
earned by bard work.