El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-06
Ell PASOAN GOES
TO CLAIM FORTUNE
Man Who Worked as Pull
man Conductor Is Heir to
q Million Dollars.

Bunting the millionaire brakeman,
has competition. 1t is Richard Cheney
Wilson. the millionaire Pullman con-
ductOr" Of FL PasO and Providence, Z.
l., formerly of FL Paso and AIbuquer
que, He formerly conducted a Pull
man between FL Paso and Albuquerque.
However there is a difference. Bunting
can lay claim to being a self-made man.
while Wilson was made by the turn of
the wheel Of fortune.
Wilson and attorney Jay Good, of FL
PaSO are now in Providence, r. l., to
lay claim to an estate Of over $1,000
000 OF the property which will fall to
the young FL PasOan, $3.50. 900 is in the
state of Rhode Island and other proper
ties in New Mexico and Arizona and
mining claim in Alaska, will bring the
inherited fortune up seven figures
Some Of the property is located at Las
Cruces.
Came Here Year Ago.
Wilson first came to FL PasO OveF
year ago from Houston, where he
worked as a bOokkeeper- He applied
to the local offices of the Pullman
company for a position as a conductor
ard as the applicant had fine letters of
character and ability, he was given a
run between FL Paso and Albuquerque.
S. c. Gardner, assistant district super
intendent of the company, said: Will
SCI W dS d uldH u ppSI GAl1y 0O ECdAS
of age, though he was as gray as If he
had been 20. He was a good conductor
and no one here ever thought that he
was worth that much money. While
Wilson was in FL PasO his father came
here from Phoenix for his health and
stayed at the st. Regis. Later he went
TO Albuquerque, where he died"
Just why young Wilson. heir to mil
lions, chose to come 10 Texas to exc
mr. fy-f-c il xxrhn
knew him here say that he was on
good terms with is father.
Interviewed in New York.
Attorney Good of FL Paso and Wilson
were tackled by New York reporters of
the Sun, and this is how they took it:
Judge Jay Good of Ell Paso, Texas,
got up from there yesterday morning
accompanied by Richard c. Wilson of
that place, and both left on the boat
yesterday afternoon for Providence.
They are going to collect. according to
Judge Good a little matter of $3.50,
which comes TO the young man as the
result of the division of the estate of
his grandfather, George F. Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson and the judge, who is
his attorney, stopped at the Manhattan
yesterday and took a look at the show
windows along Fifth avenue before the
steamer left Judge Good was willing
10 give some of the particulars of the
case, but Mr.. Wilson, who does not look
more than so, though his hair is get
ting gray. said he preferred that moth
ing be said compromise was made
A Rhode Islander.
Mr.. Wilson's grandfather said
judge Good, was George F. Wilson srs
of Providence. When he died he left
big estate, but his will provided that
the estate be held in trust until after
all his children had died. Mr.. Wilson's
father, George Wilson, jr., died ten or
fifteen days ago. and the young man
has come up 10 claim his shore of the
estate, which we are informed is at
least SS5O.OOO. This young man went to
Texas when quite small and has done
all sorts of hard work. He has borne
an excellent character and has fine let
tiers from his former employers Why
he has even worked as a -
It's no use dragging that in, Judge,
interrupted the young man. Just say
1 have been a bOokkeeper. and let it go
at that. 1 don't want any sensational
story about myself. Yes, I was born
in Providence, but 1 haven't been in
these parts since I was a small boy.
Why, l am going back to Texas to live
guess that is about all now. and he
and the judge hurried away.