New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
DRAKE NO "PlKER y
Claims a Big Slice Of Manhot-
tan and Is Locked Up.

Sir Francis Drake, doughty sea n&h'sr IN
the days Of Good Queen Bess ha'oieo
vast treasures as the result OF MS cap'"'
of many Spanish galle6ns and tne ,.
of Spsnish-American cities. but his Ih'','o"'
fade into small sums compared 10 '"VS
urpu,ised by syrous NJ. Drake, OF hu''e''
Vile Mimi, to alleged heirs of the famous
admiral.
Drake was arrested yesterday py ay
Kent. a Postoffce inspector. on a chaiso U
nsing the mails TO defraud. This Ho''i =
Drake was arraigned before United o.e.s
commissioner Shields and put under S2."V
hsi for examination on February ls
able to furnish a bond for this fns,gr'ii'a''
sum. he was sent to the Tombs.
Drake is accused in the complaint OF nav.
ing obtained $50 from Miss Fanny Cssies OF
Hodgenvile Ky. TO press claims OF q
vast estate left in this city by the somiEai-
Drake is also said TO have obtained si0o
from 7. o. Drake. of Whitef1eld. ky.' ana
so from a man named Miller, of Corsicaha'
Tex Miss eagle, ]. o. Drake ana MiisF
we're said to be joint. heirs with two Nun
dred others to property valued at Dlihoh'
of dollars.
.orr share" Drake wrote TO Miss eagle
will be 500, 100000 each"
The accused man wrote Of having att"no-
ed =. meeting OF $50 heirs. among them sew
eral '.ni]lionsires" and that the crty was
ready to settle In a few days inns "aS
last autumn. The property mentioned -
from the Battery along, the Nortn f1'Nrf ~
I'D street He had searched the ftal OF
Records on wall street he said, ana mao
found tventy-three Wills. running back 10
1712 and the property involved was
yond our estimation as to wealth.
red
he asked the so-called heirs TO send him
q s,1nnlz- which some of them did. accord
ing to the complaint. He promised definite
realization on November q last. and when
no money was received from the 'estate
the Postof1ce Department was informed
and the arrest followed, as Drake was
about to get letters from his so-called CO.
heirs.
Drake made his headquarters here at NO
hti West 42d street He is about ffty-hve
wears old He said that he. had q Falid
claim, although without papers in proof.
The information on which he based his as
sertion came from his father and mother
be said In his claim TO the lower western
psrt of Manhattan he conficted with the
claims of the Anneke Jams heirs.
Huntersville MINI. Feb. as. II.
Drake. who was arersted In New. horh
to-day on a charge of using the mails 10
defraud left here January 19 with MS
wife IT Is thought that his wife mas
gone TO Georgia. Drake lived on a farm
here for eight years, but he never d1d
much farming 1t was known around
Huntersvil1e that Drake claimed to oe
an heir of the famous British admiral,
but SO far as Is known he never tried 70
in
strength of his claims Drake came here
from Chicago Heights, III.
Newcastle. Penn, Feb 3.-Members OF
the Drake family in Western Pennsylvania
have organized, and on February Is Will
meet in Niles. Ohio. where plans, 1t Is said,
will be formulated by attorneys to secure
2 fortune said to have been left by STR
Francis Drake and now in litigation In the
British Chancery courts.
The fortune is estimated At s2oo, ,ofa. obo