The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-17
TYSON'S
MILLIONS.
Baltimore Heirs Tell of the
!, Deceased's Peculiar
ties Of Life.

es many additional facts IN the
story of the millions OF James Ty-
son, which are awaiting in Austria
liza distribution to those who can
establish their legal relation to the
American, who accumulated COL
ossal fortune in that far away land.
Several weeks ago the REPuBLI-
CAN published the story of this for
tune as furnished by the claimants
residing here and at Newark. Fol-
lowing is a portion of the already
unpublished narrative as given by
the Maryland heirs:
Attorney William T. Roberts. st.
Paul and Pleasant.streets, has filed
with the Queensland Trustees,
Limited, in the colony of Queens
land, Australia, the claim Of Miss
ElizaJ. Black, Aisquith and Thomp
son streets, and a number OF per
sons living in Cecil county, Md.
Philadelphia and st. Louis. Mo-,
to the vast fortune amounting to be.
tween $50, 000,0 900 and $40, 900, 900,
left by the late Jymes Tyson. ma.
tive OF Cecil County, Nd, who died
interstate in Brisbane, Australia,
last March. AS soon as arrange
ments for the long voyage can be
completed. Mr.. Roberts will go to
Australia for the purpose of settling
up the estate, If possible.
There can be no doubt as to the
size OF the fortune. Mr.. Roberts
has stock of letters from Austria
liza, setting forth the true facts in
the case. One letter was from John
Midmonk, postmaster of Brisbane,
in the colony of Queensland. The
letter says that James Tyson left
upwards of four million pounds in
Brisbane, and had large interests
in New South Wales.
ut was pretty we'll understood, v
sale the postmaster. "that Mr. Ty-
son left between $3O,0OO,0OO and
$40, OO0,0 00."
Another proof of the enormity of
the estate is the fact that the
Queensland Trustees, Limited, who
were appointed executors Of the
estate by the Supreme Court, were
required to give bond in the sum of
$50, 100000. 1t was the only firm in
Australia that could furnish the re-
quired bond.
No novelist ever wove prettler
story than that which tells of Jas.
Tyson $ romantic life; how he be
came a miser in far away Australia
because the girl he met and loved
Tilted him at the time he was on the
road to success and fortune, This
young lady was Miss Olive Harold,
Attorney Roberts says, the daugh-
tor of VIM. Harold,a wealthy sheep
raiser. The family went to Austria
liza from England and Miss Harold
is described as strikingly handsome
in face and figure. Tyson left his
home, in Cecil county about fifty
years ago. He was quite young
and having taste for the sea went
to Liverpool with the captain of an
English vessel, where, after wan
dering about for several months he
went to Australia, where he hired
himself to shcepraiser. He saved
his earnings and embarked in bust
ness. Fortune smiled on him and
he amassed a large fortune. He
at this time became acquainted with
Miss Harold, through her father,
with whom he had business rela-
tons, and an attachment sprung up
between them. The father of the
girl objected to Tyson's attentions,
and the lovers agreed TO quit the
colony together, but when the time
came, the young lady repcnted, and
as between her father and lover, she
chose the former and Tilted the lat
ter. This little incident changed
James TySon's whole lite, and he
became mlsanthropc and lived the
life of 4 h ermIt. He has no friends
and denied himself the necessities
OF life.
lie despised the weakness Of men
for wearing white shirts and collars
and neve r spent farthlng for them
alter his love forsool, him, Mr. Ty-
son never married ana so ieit no
relatives in Australia. He owned
several fine hotels, but never slept
Il night in one of them. seeming to
prefer his lonely hut in the mouth
tain wild, and trampcd miles and
miles, with dog and stick, from one
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his eyes on his possessions, and Il
stranger would never nave taken
him for anything but Il pcnnllcsS
lcrpar He never used soan, but
wished his hand, with sand and
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