Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-13
LEAVES FORTUNE TO
DESERTED FAMILY
Conscience StriCke Father
Leaves Them $4,000.

The story of the deathbed repent
ance of a man who had deserted his
family in New York, RETURNED to En-
gland ami made fortune which he
found he could not enjoy because 81
remorse for his conduct, and of his
efforts to right the wrong he had done
HAS come to light through a search
made by his Representatives for his
heirs.
1t was more tim forty years age
that Isaac Poole, the son Of a well-to-
do family in business in London, quar-
rellal with his father and came to New
York. He had assumed the manle o!
John Gardiner and, under that name
wooed and won Martha Mitchell. -Four
children were born, Thomas, John
Morgan and Sarah. Then Poole, u
Gardiner, one day disappeared and his
family never heard from him again.
Poole, it now appears, went back tc
London and made his peace with his
family. His father gave him money
and put him in business with his
brother. Poole prospered and when, a
year or two ago, having. grown ito be
IAN old man, ne retired, he had amas-
sad about $250,O00.
Determined to Right Wrong.
With portion of his family Poole
bought a small estate about twenty
miles from London, announcing that
tie meant to end his days in peace in
the pretty English village. But the
peace he hoped for was never his.
His mind, freed from busfness cares,
turned ever to his wife and children
he had deserted in this country. Each
day he became more remorseful.
1t was while in this state of mind,
when his days were burdenel and
sleep refused to comfort him, that he
confided his secret to an old friend
He said he would give anything if he
could make PREPARATION in some meas
ure for lis crime. He could not die in
peace without an effort to right mis-
wrong.
The friend had friends in America.
Among them a lawyer named Scott Of
Passaic, N. j. He suggested that Scott
be communicated with and told the
whole story Poole compromised by
getting his friend to write to Scott
and ask him to go to England.
Scott went there a few months ago,
saw Poole and received "a commission
to find his wife and children. But, in
fear that he might die before the
search was completed Poole made
will leaving all his property to his de-
serted family
Search for the Family.
Meanwhile TIE deserted wife, left
with four children to support, went to
Newburg, N. Y, and obtained work IN
a paper mill in New Windsor, a sub
urb. This was thirty-fve years ago.
She struggled bravely and managed
to bring UP her little family respect
ably. While still working in the paper
mill She was run down by q train on
the Erie Railroad and killed.
The children who Tad grown old
enough to shift for themselves, all
prospered fairly we'll Thomas is a
ranchman in Montana Nor
gan dives in Passaic and is cornfor-
tably off; SaratI married and is now
Mrs. De Brodie, also of Passiac, but
John was stricken in the street in
Newhurg a'@out year ago and died in
a hospital shortly afterward
When Scott returned to America af-
ter receiving his commission from
Poole he began search for the fam
lily. One by one he gathered UP the
ends and at length found all Poole's
children wEp were living. But in the
meantime Poole, worn out with age
and anxiety, had died. His fortune of
$250,000 will be divided between Thorn
as and Morgan Gardiner and Mrs. De
BTodie ,9s soon as the necessary form
alities have been gone through