Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-02
upon the ioe-crea SOFA when it
sizzles-or when it doesn't sizzle.
Portia,
INTERESTING CASE REVIEWED.
The Rightiul Heir 10 Mrs. Bloomfield II.
Moore's Fortune.

The RightiuI Heir TO Mrs. Bloomfield II.
Moore's Fortune.
Philadelphia Times.
Much interest is manifested locally
| 10 the decision Of the Chancery Court
| in London to the effect that Count
Reinhold Edward Moore Won Rosen of
Stockholm is the eldest son of Count
Carl Gustave Won Rosen formerly
chamberlain to the King of Sweden
and Norway, and his American wife,
who was Miss Ella Moore, and is the
real count ard rightful heir to tbe
fortune left by Mrs. Bloomfield Ii.
Moore, his grandmother.
Count Reinhold Won Rosen, the dis
owned son of a Swedish hot Sc, who
claimed that he was the heii and CON
tested the case in the local courts, is
crushed with Disappointment over the
decision of the London tribunal. He
claims that the Stockholm claimant
had been substituted for him bv the Won
Rosens. Justice Joyce of the Chancery
Court, found that the contestant was
an imposIer and that his representations
were bogus and fraudulent.
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore was Miss
| Clara Jessup Of this oIty. In 1912
she married Bloomfield II. Moore. and
at the time of her wedding size was
not yet out of her teens and was said
| to have been one of the fairest girls In
the Quaker City The firm of Jessup
! IL Moore became the leading paper
manufacturers OF the country, and wnen
Moore died in 1878 he left SO, 0C0
/ tn his wife and three children Clarence
| b oomfield Moore, Ella Carleton Moore,
| who married Count Carl Gustaye Won
Rosep. the priyate secretary TO King
Oscar Of Sweden, and Mary Moore,
| who married Baron Carl Won Bildt.s Gre
tary Of the Swedish Legation at Wash
| inrtop. who after ward became Premier
Of Sweden.
When Mrs. Bloomfield Moore died, on
January 9Th. 1909. in her London house
from n broken heart over the failure of
her expstjments with the notorious
John ". Kelley motor ventures, ebe left
So, 600, 600 to be divided between the
five children of her daughter, the
! Countess Ella yon Rosen, cutting her
son Clarence off with small amount,
The CouDtess Ella Won Rossp had
died before her mother. Her eldest
son, Count Reinbold Gustaye Edward
Moore won Rosep, had been djsipberjted
NV the father because he had eIoped
with a Nine. Hartmann, a prIma DOGMA
OF the Royal Opera ut StockboIm. The
woman eoon Ieft Count Re,nbold and
renrned 10 Stookbulm. wbere abe
married a high court officer and be.
came a fayorite of the king. TIE un-
fortunate Young man came 10 Pbilsdel-
mia and found a home with his grand
mother, Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, and
MAS in her good graces, although in
trouble with every one else. until he
went to Denver in 1894 TO collect
S4A. 600 in MORTGAGES for her and souap
dersd the money IN gambling.
His grandmother discarded him and,
becauss of the ate, euuous life he was
| living, his old father disowned him and
declared him an impostor and not his
eldest son.
On Nav I'd. 1899. four months after
the dent6 Of his prandmother in Lon
don. the diseraced SON. who was then
a ueddler in West virginia. began suit
In the Orphans Court in this city for