The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-05
HEIR ID PIRATE
 GOLD SPURNS T
Curse on it, PolIexfen Fears, and
 S750,OOO to Go to Charity
LOCATED BY LITTLE COIN
If You DOn's Believe This Story, Ask MT. Cox, the English Heir Hunter-Root of
 All Evil.
From the New York Tim.

All GNtiH
 From the New York Times.
 John Cox. the English attorney and agent with q mission for lost heirs, de- parted yesterday afternoon from the Wal dorf-Astoria for Boston to meet Henry Pollexfen. who claims the s75oO0O In broad Spanish pieces which his father. the late Capt Henry Pollexfen. Is said to have discovered on sunny isle where Captain Kidd or some other bold buc- cancer had hidden them.
 The tale of how MT. Cox got into eon- tact with Pollexfen of Boston is not less curious than the story of the old sea dog, Captain Pollexfen, murdered in the newest of London's throughfares, and ends in the most approved story-book style, with the promise to convert the tainted money" to the service of religion.
 MT. Cox represents a concern in Lon don. which will for a consideration hunt the world over to discover those to whom money Is due When the company re- eeived a commission to produce the heir to the fortune in doubloons, for which Captain Pollexfen was murdered last May in Kingsway, London, 1t at once turned to this country. Cox came and began his search by dropping on Fifth avenue the only piece of evidence of the missing heir he possessed. It was a gold coin, bearing the likeness of a young man and the single world Henry"
 In such a contretemps there was noth- fo 1p ha4 ta aH nd ly in three of New York papers ap- peared the offer of d reward of 5000 for information as to the whereabouts of Henry, son of the murdered Captain Pol lexfen and of a reward described as suit able for the dropped gold piece.
 Such an advertisement brought it's re- suit First yesterday came response by telephone to the Waldorf where MT. Cox lodged, from a William Pollexfen. He did not appear to have any particular | claims to the cash, except his title to the same good old Cornish name, and MT. Cox was satisfied with giving him an appointment for an interview.
 Here's Romance Enough. A few minutes later a long distance telephone rang, and then Cox knew that his search across the ocean had met with it's due reward. voice from Boston de- clared that Anthony Didring was speaking ana that t1en1y fOlleHIen HlInSelI Was standing by his side. The voice went or to say that MT. Didring had been in New York on Saturday afternoon and had taken a stroll up Fifth avenue. | As he passed the corner of Thirty third street he noticed a gold coin lying on the | sidewalk. and stopped to pick 1t up. He remarked that 1t bore the features of a young man upon it, but he did not pause l to consider them. He thought it was merely q lucky piece,' put it in his pocket, and went on.
 Later MT Didring looked at it more closely and little later read the adver- l tisement He realized that Henry Pollex- fen was a man he knew, and that the cion in his pocket was undoubtedly that to which the notice referred.
 Then MT. Didring left the phone, and Mir Pollexfen took up the story. MT. Cox had been already sufficiently sur prised by the turn his search had taken but he was still more amazed by the first words of his missing heir. Instead of eagerly setting forth his identity. as do most people to whom unexpected for tunes arc promised MT Pollexfen began:
 Spurned the Pirates Gold.
 First, let me assure you that not one halfpenny of this money will 1 convert to my own use. For many years l have devoted all my life to religion, and I fear that the guilt which clings to the amassing of this gold by the bloody pi- rates of old would pollute the hands of all who handle 1t for their private pur- poses.
 Perhaps the fate of my unhappy father is only one more instance of the Nemesis that pursues those who care too much for the root of all evil.
 q have made up my mind If my claim to this vast sum can be proved part of it I will devote uo the hunting down of those who slew my poor father and the rest shall be devoted to the sacred cause of charity. My resolution is irrevocably taken"
 After this preamble MT. Pollexfen pro ceeded to give MT. Cox an appointment at the Hotel Tourraine. Boston, last night. to allow the production of proper proofs of his identity. It is to keep this ap- pointment that MT. Cox left the city yes terday afternoon
 According to the brief account of him self which Henry Pollexfen communi- cated to MT. Cox over the telephone he is the son of the late Capt. Henry Pol lexfen of London Five years ago he left his father. He had, indeed, a heredi- tary yearning for the sea, but he man fully resisted it. His thoughts turned to holier things. and he therefore slipped
 
 voyage to the South Seas. and never let him know what had become of him.
 In his search for the higher life he decided to come to the United States to earn his living the best he might He dreamed that upon the boundless prairies of the west his soul would be exposed to less temptation than in more crowded centers. But some one told him of Bos- ton and thither he went to find his peace in religious work
 Meanwhile Captain Pollexf/, after forty wears of the sea, retired and announced that he had acquired a fortune. It seems that really he had discovered the hiding nlace of the store of an old-time pirate From this he packed $75O.0OO in a trunk and settled down to end his days in quiet in Kingscway, London
 pohhers got wind of his possessions and thew hurst into his rooms, stole S12o,O00 of the money. and murdered the old mar iner. Yet still what he had left was so [