Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-04
LIFT A DETECTIVES WATCH
Great Haul Made on Rich Estates to
Fatten National Treasury
LEVY MADE On MEIIIONAREs
Re-swearing on Estates of Morrison
and Alfred Belt.
ANCIENT LAW SUIT IS RENEWED
interrupted over Five Centuries Ago,
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Case,
started by Abbott, IL BE
Tag Argued.
BY PAUL LAMBETH

LONDON Dec. 3.--(Special to The Bee.)-
Funnier than anything that ever was
thrown on the screen at moving pictrue |
show Is the merry chase which gang Of |
American crooks has been leading the |
metropolitan police and the famed Scotland |
Yard detective force. The gang has been |
operating successfully for months and al
most within the shadow OF that famous |
home for detectives. II Is said on what /
appears to be very good suthority-namely, |
London bobby-that one Of the crooks |
picked the pocket Of a detective on bet |
and then got q pipe full Of tobacco from /
him after taking his watch. London de- |
tectves are such serious persons. moving \
about buried in deep thought II the |
weight Of the empire rested upon their |
shoulders, that It is easy to commit crime I
right before their eyes, All one must do
to throw a London detective OFF his guard !
Is 10 salute him.
BY the re-sBearinE Of the immense es-
tates of Charles Morrison and Mr.. Alfred /
Belt, the former leaving close upon G11,0O0,
900 and the latter eS, 900 the treasury has !
made a tremendous haul The late Mr. |
Morrison OF Harley street W., died in |
May 1909, and a month later the value OF |
his estate was returned at the record figure |
OF R6,666.e66. It has been re-swOrn at flO, !
OsO656. an increase OF e4270.OoO, and pOssi- |
bly, the fun extent OF the fortune is not
definitely ascertained yet. On the figures 4
of this re-sworn valuation, the estate duty
alone amounts to e164O.5OO, and the total
levy OF the ekchequer duty, succession duty |
and settlement estate duty will probably |
amount to- about e2O0O.OOO. 1t Is probably |
the largest estate in the country OF which |
anyone has had absolute disposal.
Father started POOR.
Morrison inherited from his father in 1867
e1.OOO,SOO. and the f1l,OoOoOo which he left
represents a little less than the sum TO
which his original inheritance would have |
accumulated with compound interest at
per cent. Mr.. Morrison, who was in his
p2d year, was the son Of poor Hampshire
man, who came to this city and made
fortune as a draper. He believed In small |
profits and quick returns. Inheriting
large sum Of money. the late Mr.. Morrison
i engaged as a financier, promoting All kinds
of enterprises. and ready to buy anything /
and sell anything.
Dressing ahabbily, he often lunched on
an apple or bun eaten as he walked along !
the street At the age OF IS he published
a book entitled Doubts about Darwin /
ism BY = Semi-Dar winian." Although one
OF the tgealthiest men IN a wealthy city, |
he was known to very few and the extent
OF his vast fortune was never realized.
Alfred Belt was, OF course, member OF
the firm OF Messrs. Wernhor, Belt a Co.
death In 1906, at fS.0OO00O but 1t has been
re-sworn az what is presumably the final
figure OF eSOaS, 6l6.0s Sd. He bequeathed
100000 Cor public uses OF which el,2OO,0OO
was left 70 the trustees for the development |
OF communication In Africa
Heirs Escape High DUTY.
The estate comes under Sir William Har-
courts act OF 1894 for the purposes OF
death duties. and the estate duty amounts
to e64S.009, Property to the value OF ESQ.,
coo pays legacy duty at the rate Of 10 per
cent and per cent u payable on the
balance, making the total exchequer levy
about RL05O,O00. II Mr. Belt had died at
ter April 1909, his estate would have had
20 nay about q, 20S. 900 IN estate duty, while
the total duties would have amounted to
about e1,SO0O00 OF an Increase under Lloyd
Georges scheme OF about e75Q0Oo as com
pared with the old rate. The value Of the
estate which passed on the death OF the
duke OF Westminster In 1888 exceeded that
OF either Mr.. Morrison or Mr., Belt, but the
duke OF Westminster was only tenant for
life OF the great estates, worth probably
more than G14OOO,OO0. which passed on his
death.
Ancient Lawsuit Renewal.
Just 652 years after Its adjournment a /
law case which was originally interrupted
because Richard de Maundeville had 20
leave for the war In France has been re-
sumed In the ehanoery court The point
al issue Is the right to hold a market az
atowmarket Suffolk. and. the suit was
originally brought by the Abbot OF 81.
osyth, Essex, in the reign OF Edward III,
against Richard de Maundeville The
abbot claimed that Richard had wrongnlly
obtained the grant OF the right to hold a
market ito the grave damage OF the said
abbot" Richard claimed the kings prOtec-
ton, and eventually the case was ad-
iourned sine die because OF his departure
abroad.
A. tho resumed hearing last week, G. F.
Howard. the modern representative OF
Richard. asserted that @. A. Woodward,
the modern representative Of the abbott
had no right TO set up rival market. This
assertion was supported By Mr.. ogden, X.
c., who cited the Domesday book and other
books.
when Richard de Maundeville went
abroad" remarked Justice Eve. he little
foresaw that we would be fighting the
same question coo years Afterwards" The
hearing was adjourned.
Cost % CrtPPen Case.
police estimate Of the cost OF the pro-
eeedings IN the Crippen case Is f2.50o
Tbs telegraphie output, on the authority
OF the post office was second only 70 that
OF the Menson trial in the Ardlanent case.
IN Scotland, The cahlegrams to the United
states papers, exceeded these Of any pre-
vious murder trial
Terse Summing Up.
Justice Grantham. at Norwich. enters for
the prize for the shortest summing-up on
record
"0entemen OF the jury, the prisoner has
nothing 70 say, neither have I, consider
yopT verdict