The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-12
Millions SEEKING HE|RSI
FANTASTIC TALE OF "DR. THEo-
DORE I<EATTLE" AND HER
DESCENDANTS
IMBRA CLARK's VAST WEALTH
Is Also Claimed by the Grand
daughter of Kate Haviiand, Who
Is Also Daughter to the
Dead Australian.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, April 1.-THE Cour-
Ter Journal tomorrow will say:
Hugh II. Havland. of Greeneviile, KY,
claims to be one OF the heirs to a for
tune left by "Dr. Theodore Keatt,e."
another Murray Hail."
DIR. Keattle'' died at Punta Gorda
Fla, in 1896. Then it was discovered that
the doctor" was a woman. and that for
thirty years she had masqueraded. The
woman was a mother Those who were
supposed to know, say that in 1853 a lit
tie boy was placed In the Protestant
Episcopal asylum at Louisville by ..Dr.
keattle, then confesSedly a woman,
known as Kate Haviland The boys
name was Hugh H. Haviiand. He was
later bound out to a farmer. and finally
rose to an independent position at Green
vile. This is the story of Hugh Havi-
land, told by himself in d letter to the
Courier Journal:
FOR nearly forty years he knew moth
ing of his parents. Then came a letter
from letter from a New York LAWYER
q. Tarleten Godthwaite, al Broadway.
who wrote that While searching for the
heirs Of "Dr. Theodore Keattie." whom
death revealed to be a woman, he hid
found that. in 1853, she, going by the
name of Kate Haviland, had d ace
Hugh ii. Haviland in the Protestant
Episcopal orphan asylum at Louisville
Hugh III. Haviland, at Greeneyille. is re-
garded as that boy. That Kate Hayi-
land was "Dr. Keattle," was, it is said.
practically established by witnesses in
New YORK ana Brooklyn But Hugh
HaViland is heir to but half the fortune
A girl. who is expected to divide with
him. Grace NJ. Clark Elliott HaviIand-s
niece, so Lawyer Goldthwaite SAYS, be-
heVes herself sole heireSS to Imbra Clark
OF Australia, who'll died worth $25. 0C0 90.
Hugh Havfland'S little sister, Kate Hayt
lands other child, according to LAWYER
Goldthwaite, wast put up by the mother
with foster parents. 1.-The girl grew I'D.
married Imbra Clark, and went West
With him. In 1877 they went to San
Francisco and thereda child was born.
Within two weeks the delicate mother
Kate Haviiand' sE1daughter, died The
baby was placed in nthe hands Of MS
Martha "A. Grisweid,s superintendent of
the Home Of the F'niendless, by Imbra
Clark, who sailed almost immediately
for Australia Several years after Mrs
Griswoid heard of iC4ark's death and adj
vertised for some. one to adopt the little
orphan girl. The Eliiotts responded,
and on Aug q, 5ASiS were granted "a
pers of adoption bNear court in San Fran
cisco. In 1897 the. tIIiotts learned that
Inbra Clark had left a fortune of s2s-
100000, to which there was no heir. and
began a tight for their foster daughters
rights. The estate is tied up in the Eng
lish courts, and though hundreds of
claimants have come forward none has
been able to prove claims to the salts
faction of the British authorities.
I'd Grace M Clark-Elliott had almost CIV
en- UP hope when Geldthwaite.s- letter
came. telling her she was heiress to the
estate of her grandmother the spurious
DR. Keattle of Punta Gorda. Fla.
Now Miss Elliott expects to prove her
claim. s ,-,-