The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-08
Inherits Three Hundred Thousand
Dollars from Cousin.
WAS 4 SHIP WRECKED SAILOR.
GOots Luck.

Hannah Callaghan OF Cork. as her
share in the estate of her cousin, John
Sullivan, who died intestate in Seat
tie, Wash.
Wrinkled, haggard, with narrow,
pointed nose, thinlipS, bitter tongue
and an aggressive disposition, the wo-
man who has just inherited s300.0
earned her living until few days ago
as a rag picker. For years she has
made her home in SQuafid little
room-for which she occasionally has
been able TO pay shilling a week
rent-in an narrow alley. appropriate
" named "Cr0ne lane in Cork'S
worst slum. She began life as a GRO
chet woman and once earned as much
as S5 a week-then she got to be a
scrub woman and made less. and Of
late years she has collected bones and
sold fruit. and generally lived from.
hand to mouth. She has been some
what partial to gin.
When the news reached Hannah
CaDaghan the other day that she had
inherited half of John Sullivan'S for
tune-Edward Corccran, q poor Dub
lin artisan, got the other half-the old
woman was 50 bewildered that she
could hardly realize what it meant to
her. She heard that her cousin had
died intestate, but had thought so lit
tie Of her own chances Of getting a
share Of his estate that when the
American lawyers came 10 her several
months ago and offered to push her
claim she made no trouble over sign
ing an agreement that they should
take half Of any sum they succeeded
in getting awarded to her. This
doesn't mean, however, that the old
woman was feeced by her American
attorneys.
For six months they have worked
like beavers to get her inheritance.
and the enleSs trouble they took and
the ingenuity they manifested certain
y entitle them to a pretty Sizable fee.
if not as large one as they have
gained. Besides finding in the slums
OF Irish cities the the two obscure peo-
pie who are John Sullivan's next Of
Kin, they turned up, after weeks of
searching certificates dating back as
far as 1894. and even dug up the cot
fms that held the remains of Sullivan'S
parents, in order to copy the inscrlp-
tions on the plates. Meanwhile they
deposited to Hannah'S credit in a
Cork bank $3.50, allowing her to draw
SIS a week thereof-So sure did they
feel Of success.
Since Hannah Callaghan became an
heireSS a clergyman in her nelghbor
hood has been looking after her, to
see that no one takes advantage OF
her. The precaution is necessary, for
the old Irish woman who hasn't yet
decided to leave the dirty little room
in which she has lived for SO long, is,
being harried by folk who have sud-
sdenly discovered themselves to be
''..relasireS'' Of hers, diSintereSted souls
who would be willing to assist her to
invest her money, as well as gallant
.snitorS who love her for heself alone.
Edward Corcoran, the Dublin man
VINO gets the other half Of John SulIl-
vans fortune. is saddler. Like Han
nah Caliaghan, he was Sulllran'S frst
cousin. Like her, too. when approach
ed by the American lawyers, he signed
over to them a large share Of his in
heritance in case he got it. No sooner
was he in possession Of his legacy,
however, than Corcoran tried to get
his agreement set aside. He has not
succeeded.
If anything isneeded to add romance
10 the story of how these two old peo-
PIE, having led lives Of poverty, are
suddenly made rich, it can be found
in the strange career Of John Sullivan
himself. the builder Of the fortune
which Corcoran and Hannah Callag-
han have inherited. He was born in
the same Cork Slum in which the old
rag and bone picker has lived so long.
He became a sailor and finally was
shipwrecked on the coast Of the State
of Washington. Alone Of the crew Of
his ship. he was cast ashore alive.
He suffered terribly from cold and
lost several toes through frost bite.
but manced to keep alive through
killing and eating small animals and
birds. Then be built himself cabin
and afterward a second one. which he
rented to man who happend along.
Finally he had whole village Of shan
ties, which he owned, but just as it
was beginning to bring in little
something in the way Of rent, the
whole settlement burned down.
Sullivan still owned the land. how
ever. and he rebuilt upon it,and event
ually as one Of the founders Of Seat
tie grew rich. Marie Carrau, the
woman who claimed Sullivan'S estate
on the ground that the IriShman had
made it over to her by means OF YER
: bal will. came near being left in un-
disturbed possession of it. The Supe-
rior court of Washington admitted her
claim. but then the American lawyers
discovered Sullivan'S next Of Kin. Inc
United States consul at Queenstown
: held an inquiry, ir which whole loads
, of evidence were taken. after consider
ing it the supreme court handed
. down the verdict raised two people
from wretched poverty to wealth.
John Sullivan visited Cork last year,
: .singularly enough. to collect a legacy
. of about $1,000, which had been left
him by his sister, but it is significant
that he neither visited nor communl-
Gated with either Of the people WHO
have succeeded TO his fortune.