The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-16
A MYSTERY OF MANY YEARS STANDING
SOLVED AT LAST.
POSING AS A MAN FOR YEARS.
DIR. Keattle, on His Death is Found to
be Kate Haviland whom 1853 Placed
Her Son in an Orphanage in Louis
Tflle-Mr. Haviland and a Child of a
Sister Claim "Dr. Keattle'so Estate.
The Girl Claimant of a S25 900, 900
Estate In Australia.

Louisville. April 1.-THE Courier
Journal tomorrow will say:
Hugh H. Haviland, or Greenville.
KY. claims to be one of the heirs of a
fortune left by DIR. Theodore Keattle,'
another Murray Hail."
DIR. keattle" died at Punta Gorda,
Fla. in 1896. Then it was discovered
that the doctor was 4 woman and
that for thirty years she had SO mas
q~ueraded. The woman was a mother.
Those who were supposed TO know say
that in 1853 a little boy was placed IN
the Protestant Episcopal orphan asy-
lum at Louisville by DR.. keattIe,"
then confessedly a woman, known as
Kate Haviland. The boys name was
Hugh H.. Hayiland. He was later
bound u to a farm and finally rose
to an independent position at Green
Vile This is the story of Hugh Havi-
Iand. told by himself in a letter to the
COurier-JOurnsl.
For nearly LOrty years he knew moth
ing OF his parents. Then came a letter
from a New York laWyer-G. TarIelou
GoldWaIthe, 14I Broadway-who wrote
thai While searching for The heirs OF
Dr. Theodore keattle, whom death
revealed to be a woman, he had found
that in 1858 she. going by the name o.
Kate HaVllahd, had put Hugh H. HaVi-
land in the Protestant Episcopal Or
phan asylum at Louisville.
Hugh H. HaViland, at G%reenville, is
regarded as That boy. That Ka,e HaVi-
land was DR.. Keattle' was. it is said,
practically established by witnesses in
New York and Brooklyn.
Hugh Hayiland is heir 10 but half the
fortune. a girl who is expected to di-
vide 1t with him., Grace Nj. Clark Ell
lott. HaViland's neice. SO Lawyer Gold
waithe says. believes herself sole heir
ess 10 lmbray Clark. of Australia, who
died worth $25, 900, 900.
Hugh Haviland's little sister. Kate
HaViland's other child. according 90
Lawyer GOldwafthe. was put by the
mother with foster parents. The girl
grew up. married Imbray Clark and
went west with him. In 1877 they went
to a Francisco and there q child was
born. Within two weeks the delicate
mother, Kate Haviland's daughter,
died. The baby was placed IN the
hands of Mrs. Martha A. Griswold, su-
perintendent of the home of the friend
less. by Imbray Clark. who sailed al
most Immediately for Australia.
Several years after Mrs. Griswold
heard of Clark's death and advertised
for some one TO adopt the little orphar
girl. the EIliOtts Responded and on Au-
gust p. 1878. were granted papers OF
adoption by n court in San Francisco
In 1897 the ElliOtIs learned that Imbray
Clark had left a fortune or S25. 900. 600
to which there was no heir, and begar
a fight for their foster daughters
rights. The estate is tied up in the
English cOurts and though hundred,
of claimants have come forward, nont
has been able to prove claims to tn:
satisfaction of the British authorities.
Grace NJ. Clark Elliott had almoS
given up hope when Lawyer Gold
waithe's letter came telling her sh.
w2S heireSS to the estate of her grand
mother. the spurious ''Dr. Keattle.
of Punt GOrd1. Now Miss Elliott ex
poets To rrOve her claim.