The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-09-02
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Awaits Resident
of This City.
Valuable Land Falls
to Widow Lady.
MRS. COOPER
The Name of the
Lucky Person.
Resides on South Main Street
and Her Son is Employed
In Big -Four Shops.

After search of two years during
which sleuths of the famous law firm
of Hunter g. Gordon, Aberdeen, Scot
land. have traversed every quarter of
the globe, an heiress to vast estates in
Scotland-residence property and shoot
ing preserves valued at four millions
of dollars-has been discovered in the
person of Mrs. wilhelmina Cooper. at
912 north Main street. this city, by De-
tective T. II. Bowden, of Cleveland,
Ohio. Mrs. Cooper's name was form
erly Miss Hunter, a resident of the
north of England.
A LONG SEARCH.
The quest for the missing heiress
has attracted wide spread interest in
Scotland and has aroused comment in
America. For the past several years
Scotland solicitors have written every
principal city in the United States
seeking trace of Mrs. Cooper. Hun
dreds of replies have been received but
none of the claimants have been able
to prove themselves the woman wan
ted. Requests for some wcrd Of her
have been published in eastern papers
but to no avail.
It remained for Chief OF Police Koh-
Ter, of Cleveland. and Detective Bow
den, of the Forest City, to find the
person that the united efforts of two
Governments have been unable to find.
A CLUE.
Through the Chief of Police at Rich
mond, Virginia, clue to tine where
abouts of Mrs. Cooper was obtained
Hunter & Gordon were informed by a
correspondent that the missing woman
with her son had removed to house
ON Chestnut Hill, Richmond.
An investigation was set ON foot and
it was learned that after certain rever-
ses of fortune Mrs. Cooper and her son
had moved to Cleveland.
In the meantime litigation had com
menced in the Scottish courts and 80
licitors were much occupied in settling
controversies with other heirs.
LAND Is VALUABLE.
The lands to which the resident of
Bellefontine is heir consist of large
tracts of moor lands. This land is
valuable because of its unlimited pos
sibilities under improvement and the
revenues obtainsble by letting it to
hunters and fishermen from London
and Glasgow. Trouble over season
leases brought suit after suit and not
till August 16 last did the firm of Hun.
ter & Gordon start to search determin.
edly for the missing heir.
SON LOCATED.
Machinists and boilermakers to the
number of sixteen were listed in tine
Cleveland directory and to this list did
Detective Bowden turn his attention.
After search he found that boiler.
maker by the name of William Cooper
had moved from the Forest City tC
Bellefontsine.
Acting on this slender thread Detect.
i've Bowden resolved to visit this city.
He arrived Thursday morning from
the east and after inquiries went &c
L ha AF
Main street, and at last found there
in the person Of Cooper's mother the
long sought heir to millions.
LADY SURPRISED.
Mrs. Cooper knew at once the errand
of the detective. She said, however,
that recently she received letter from
Scotland that papers IN Scotland had
been advertising for Mrs. Cooper but
that she was unconscious that an es
tate was awaiting her. The Cooper
have been moving from city to city fol
the past two years.
William Cooper. the son, is boiler.
maker in the shops. has family anC
Mrs. Cooper. his mother. resides with
him. She. is a lady about 60 year
Of age. refined and pleasing.
| Mr.. Hunter. Mrs. Cooper's father
was Scottish land holder and mem
Der of Parliament When he die,
his brother came in possession of tn
estate. He was also member of Par
lament and died at the age of % years
From him the estate passes to Mrs
Cooper and two other children
WRITES TO SCOTLAND.
Mrs. Cooper has communicated will
the firm Of Hunter 81 Gordon at Aber
deem, Scotland, and is ready to leav
for Scotland at any time.
/. Sc it has remained for shrewd de
tective from Cleveland to unearth il
this city an unsuspecting heiress t
ancestral estates in Scotland and i
she should die a Bellefontaine boiler
maker will become the rightful owne
of Scottish moor and bog and fen.