The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
HE|RESS CANNOT
 COME FOR MONEY AT PRESENT TIME Jamaican Official Will Go to Nashville to Finish Up
 Details of Request.
OVERCOME BY NEWS
 OF HER GOOD FORTUNE
Mrs. yester Says She Is Already Swamped by Lawyers Who Want to Look After Interests-The
 Hospital Request.

Mrs. Herman Vester will not be able to come to Birmingham at this time to claim her inheritance because of the delicate state of her health.
 Daniel Jones, the Jamaican official who came to this country to locate her, will leave for Nashville either to, day or tomorrow to complete his iden- tification of the woman who is the beneficiary of the will of her former betrothed, D. D. Ennis, to the extent of nearly s300000. MT. Jones had a long talk over the telephone with Mrs. Vester yesterday morning and she was almost prostrated by the news that had reached her indirectly the day be- fore.
 "She said she could not realize it. and feared yet that she would wake up and find that she had been dreaming, said Mir. Jones. "She said she lived in a. little three-room house that she and her husband were mighty proud of; that they had bought it and had been paying for 1t by the month, and that there only remained about $500 yet to be paid on the home before 1t was theirs. She said she had never dreamed that anything could happen so that she could pay off the whole $500 at one time.
 Says Husband Is Good Man.
 "She said her husband was good man, a hard worker, a Christian, and that he was painter by trade. She answered all the questions 1 asked her in such way that I haven't the least doubt about her being the person en- tiled to the property.
 "She said that she now had two chil- dren and that they were a happy lit tie familya Of course. since she cah- not come to Birmingham l will go to Nashville to get the papers In shape and will take along some of the nec- essary witnesses, among them pelng her aunt, Mrs. Lytle of East Lake.
 Mrs. Vester told me over the tele- phone this morning that there had al ready been about 50 lawyers to see her in order to assist her in the mat ter but 1 told her to make no arrange ments whatever until I got there, as we would want a man who was thor oughly responsible and that l would help her pick out one. It will not De necessary for Mrs. Vester to go to Jamaica to get the property unless she chooses to do so, as the American con- sul there can make all the arrange ments to have the money transferred I suppose, however, that she will want to go to the island later on to see the plantation
 Has No Ready Money.
 'sWhcn I was talking to her this morning she asked me how she was to get the money and if there was to be any expense attached. She said that she had no ready money what ever, and that if there was to be any expense she would have to give it up told her, however, that she would not be at any expense and that the money would be turned over to her even If she did not raise her hand in the matter.
 q spent $11.50 on a cablegram to the governor of Jamaica this morning ex- plainng the situation. One of the things that is puzzling me is what to do with this $10,000 check which l have that is to be paid to the hospital In Birmingham in which Ennis was nursed back to health. I am told that the hos pital is no more and in my cablegram this morning I recommended to the governor that a certain proportion of 1t be set aside to give to people who had assisted me in locating the heiress and the remainder to go to some char itable institution in Birmingham. l thought it would be proper to have it go to some Birmingham charity be- cause the people of Birmingham have shown such an interest in the matter and have given me so much assistance in locating Mrs. Vester.
 Division of the Reward.
 "As to the 5000 reward for locating her, I also have that check in my room signed by the governor and I have not fully made up my mind as to how 1t should be divided. I am inclined to think that Lige Loy should have a share of it because of the unusual interest he has taken in the case and the assistance he has given. It was his telegram to the chief of police of Nashville which was first responsible for breaking the news to Mrs. Ves- ter and he himself went to Nashville at once and Is now in that city. When