The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
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Story of How Former Sweetheart Left Her Nearly Quarter of Million Dol lars Reads Like Real
 Romance
The heiress has been found.

Miss Clauddie Clark of Birmingham now lives at 1905 Eigteenth avenue, North Nashville.
 The value of her estate, it is claimed, will be nearer $30o GOO than s2S5,ooo IS at first announced
 Daniel Jones states the reward for in- | formation as to her whereabouts Will be shared equally by J. B. Smiley, the Birmingham liveryman, and Mrs. Mary Lytle. an aunt of Mrs. Vester, who lives at 7729 Sloss avenue. East Lake. ihey will receive $500 each because they were rirs+ to get definite information about the heiress to MT. Jones' the Jamaican alcalda yesterday morning.
 When the Age-Herald appeared with the aacount of the missing heiress yes terday morning it created furore all over North Alabama. Dozens or people knew her and knew that she had been married A number of them knew that she lived in Nashville but her aunt, Mrs. Iytle. at East Lake, appears to have been one of the few who knew her ae- tual address. Information received from Nashville last night was to the effect that Mrs Vester would arrive In Bir- mingham this morning although Walter Iytle. her cousin, had made up his mind | to 20 to Nashville last night to locate her definitely.
 Mir. Jones, the Jamaican official, who is stopping at the Birmingham hotel, was delighted yesterday that she had been found after the long search that had ho Ia m through the mails and through advertis- ing. Discussing the property that She would acquire he said
 What the Property Includes
 There was mistake in your newspa- per figures this morning as to the amount of the property. There is at present de- posited in the Colonial bank at Kingston to the credit of the Ennis estate slo0so9, and this is drawing per cent interest. The plantation which Ennis wilied to her along with all the money he left con- sists of about 1400 hectors and hector | Is a little over two acres. This lana Is in cultivation and yields about s52,ooO year from which an expense account oi between s4000 and s5000 must be deducted. ..The income from the various parts of the property runs about as follows, and | is increasing every year; Cotfee' apous S6O hector a year; bananas, s4o; cocoa- nuts, SIP to s15; pineapples, s3o to $40; yams s15 to SIS and cocoa. so.
 "There is a standing offer of s5oo0o for the land and the United Fruit company, the Hamburg American Steamship com pany or the Royal Mail Packet company would be delighted to buy it at this price al any time. These three companies own about one-third of the land on the isl- and.
 ",rhe land has been managed since the death of Ennis by the government. The accounts are checked up each year by the American consul and the revenue for the year is deposited in the bank where 1t draws per cent interest, the highest in terest allowed on the island"
 Reads Like Romance
 The story of the inheritance of this property reads like a sure enough TO- nance. E. D. Ennis fell in love with Miss Clauddie Clark in Birmingham Tn the early nlneties They became engaged and in 1892 Miss Clark had begun making her wedding clothes when Ennis got into some kind of trouble and had to leave Birmingham. Going to Kingston he soon bought some uncultivated government | land, which was very cheap. He later went to Darien and even to Africa. At these places he made money in mining and went back to Kingston where he bought more land
 l When he got into trouble with span ard about three years ago and was shot, he willed everything he had to his old sweetheart in Alabama The total value of the property. today, it is claimed, will run close to ssOo.OoO.
 Daniel Jones came to Birmingham from Jamaica last week to see if he could not locate Miss Clark as the estate would soon revert to the British government unless she could be found. About the only clue he had to her whereabouts was contained in some letters signed by J. B. Smiley of Birmingham. These letters had been left by Ennis at the time of his death
 It appears that Ennis and Smiley were rivals for Miss Clark's affections in Birmingham, and after Ennis left the city Smiley wrote her number of letters. She was still in correspondence with Ennis, however, and she would forward to him the letters which Smiley had writ ten her.
 Gradually the correspondence between Miss Clark and Ennis seems to have ceased. however, and she married Her. man yester of Nashville about eight years ago.
 How She Was Located
 The manner in which she was located yesterday was full of Hterest J. B. Smiley had had talk with MT. Jones Saturday and he knew that the heiress was married, and that she lived in Nash vile. He did not, however, know her ad- dress in that city. He also knew Mrs Lytle at East Lake, and knew that she would know Mrs. Vester's address.
 When Mrs. Lytle's daughter picked up The Age-Herald yesterday morning she thought she recognized her cousins name in the account and hurried to the kitchen to her mother who was getting breakfast to tell her about 1t. Mrs Lytle was skep- tical and could not believe that the heir ess could be her niece. They kept talk ing about it all morning, however, and