The Detroit times., 1912-02-14
DEATH PLAYS SARDOMIC
TRICK ON MILLIONAIRE
.HAWlEY AND TWO WOMEN
One Is Pampered,, the Other
Despised While Railroad
- -Magnate=HiYed--
NO WILL is DISCOVERED
While Adeline Crandall Goes
From Poverty To Wealth,
dolly" Cameron Loses

NEW YORK. Feb. 14.-Edwin Haw.
ley, the railroad financier who sue
ceeded TO the title OF wizard" when
Hartman died, left no will when he
passed beyond, the other day. He did
not care. apparently, where his great
fortune went. once his active brain
had ceased TO devise new ways for
adding to It, The Hawley fortune Is
estimated at from s40,000,000 TO $780,
100000. At a nominal rate Of interest
Edwin Hawley's income during the
latter years OF his life was from 49,
100000 TO $5,000,000 year. He
couldn't spend the tenth part OF II,
even in the establishment he ruled
down at Babylon, Long Island.
Yet TO the day Of his death, Haw.
ley was planning, scheming, ever de-
vislng new ways for adding TO this
tremendous fortune, which he didn't
even care for enough to leave a VIII
directing its distribution.
Down In Wall-st. they say Edwin
Hawley was one OF the most un-
scrupulous fnanciers who ever lived
--or died. Sully, the deposed cotton
King. swore Hawley, ostensibly his
friend, sold him" out during the
great bull raid on the cotton ex-
change. Neither friendship nor honor
was sacred to Edwin Hawley when
he thought he could add to his mil
lions. His own nephew, who as a police
man was throwing him bodily out OF
Hawiey's office, turned to Hawley and
hlssed:
.Tf a rattlesnake ever bit you, the
snake would die: that's how mean
you are"
Wall.st. always agreed that the
nephew was a rare Judge of human
nature.
Where will the money go? Appar-
emily Edwin Hawley himself didn't
care. since his aim in life was In the.
boarding OF money, not the disposing
OF II.
To a woman who has just come
from a prison cell over on BlackwelPs
Island, some OF the Hawley millions
will mean an education for her chill
dren, and a few comforts for her de-
clining years, In striking contrast
with the years OF poverty she spent
because she dared exercise the human
emotion and love.
To another woman. mistress Of the
magnificent estate at Babylon, L.. l.,
there will &c none of the Hawley mill
lions. though il is believed the rail-
road king intended sometime to make
her his wife and leave her his
fortune.
Years ago Hawley took his sisters
son, Frederick Crandall, into his OF
flee. Crandall fell in love with Adeline
McMsnus, Hawley's private telegraph
operator. For that Hawley disin-
herlted his nephew and dismissed MS
orerator. They married-and Tor
years they lived in poverty. The day
Hawiey died, Crandall got job as
bookkeeper for firm OF stevedores.
AZ $40 a week. His wife, the pretty
Adeline McManus. was on the
island" doing a month" for a hght
with neighbors.
Hawley left no will Onehfteenth
of his great fortune, under the laws
OF the state, will go TO -CfaHdaH and
his wife.
go far as ! am concerned, The
money doesn't mean anything TO me-
said Mrs. Crandall, as she came from
the island" But have five young
ones. This is a chance to educate
them--to bring them up right. won't
90 IN for automobiles and style. It's
for the children's sake | want the
money, the dears.
The other woman, expecting Haw-
ley's millions, will get nothing. Haw-
lev. intent on making more millions,
forgot to draw up a will. And so,
while -Adelfhe Crandall goes from
poyerty TO wealth, Dolly Cameron
loses even her \country estate-at
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