The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-10
Science Versus
Fraud
A Vast Fortune Was Saved py
Recently Discovered Seien-
tific Treatment
BY +. A. mitchell
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911.
BY +. A. mitchell

of her line, died on her estate III
the environs OF London. The property
was put on the market for SALE ano'
since the neighborhood was an aristo-
cratic one in which few old fami'les
Ind for many years resided, II was
deemed undesirable by the other land
holders in the vicinity that the linen
elwood estate should pass Into the
lands OF parvenu or be built upon
For business or manufacturing pur-
noses. Twenty gentlemen dubbed TO-
gether, each putting in 1000, ana
bought the property. Then they put
II into trust, each nominating papy
boy or girl less than one year old, VINO
was to inherit his interest. The last
one of these children 10 remain alive
was TO be decided the property by the
trustees.
The expedient did not long delay
trade from entering the neighDorhoOd'
the trainers of the trust gradually NOV
ing away or dying, and at the begin
ming OF the present century the Hihch'
elwood estate, surrounded us IL was
by business property, was valued at
fl 100000. Two of the nominees were
living, Nicholas Baxter, aged ninety
two years, and Timothy Ogilsby, aged
ninety-two years and six months.
Here was $5,000,000 dependent upon
two lives that were sure soon 10 60 out.
1t was To be expected that those VINO
We're heirs 10 these persons should take
"a marked interest in their longevity,
IL Baxter outlived Ogilsby the estate
would go to great-great- grandniece
living in America. If Ogilsby lived
the longer he had willed the whole
property TO n granddaughter living III
London. The American candidate was
Miss Gladys Hinchelwood, aged TWEEN
ty, a descendant of the family who had
originally owned the property, whose
parents had emigrated TO the new hem
isDhere before her birth. Both the
aged men lived in London in houses
situated on the Hinchelwood estate and
across the street from each other.
One morning Miss Hinchelwood
called at the Institute For Expert
mental Research and asked for DR..
Willard Searle, one OF the stan. DR..
Searle was at the time substituting Il
new liver taken from a subject whose
death had occurred but few minutes
before for diseased liver in an other
wise healthy man. AS soon as the OPP
Grafton had been completed he went
to the reception room. where he met
Miss Hinchelwood. Since DIR. Searle
was a bachelor of little more than
thirty, n call from young lady who
possessed remarkably intelligent IL
not beautiful face was not displeaslng
TO him. The young lady announced
the object of her call by giving an ac-
count Of the formation OF the Hinchel-
wood trust and her present interest in
It. Then she continued:
"Many of our vast American estates
have passed into the hands of Brit
ish men by their marriage with our
, neiresses. Here is n property which
hangs in the balance between an Eng
! lishman and an American girl, my
self. Mr.. Baxter and Mr.. Qgilsby are
iii i'm London. If my great-great-
granduncle. Mr. Ogisby. lives the
longer | shall inherit $5,000,000. If
Mr.. Baxter survives him | shall get
| nothing"
DR.. Searle's interest was excited.
"Now, | have read" continued Miss
Hinchelwood, 'in magazines and other
places of the wonderful work you are
doing here in this institute. i under
stand that you are studying the very
source of life. | have come To you to
ask IL you know Of any method of pro-
longing life that must soon pass
from the body"
DIR. Searle leaned back in his chair,
looked at the ceiling, then at the
speaker, and said:
"Well, go on"
"These two old men are likely to
die within few days. hours. minutes
ever survives the other owns the es-
tate, which he may transmit to his
heirs or, rather, has already willed
One in my interest lin London has in.
formed me that unfair means will be
used to keep Mr.. Bakers death Sc
cret i'm case he dies before Mr. Ogils
by. | desire to meet these unfair
methods by scientific methods. | mean
by this | would prolong Mr.. Ogilsby's
life"
DIR. Searle arose from his chair
paced the floor meditatively for sever
| al nfnnfac tbap On III.
"Of course I should have to go e
London"
"That you know better than L.
81 have been thinking of taking q
rest"
"You would get that on the ocean"
In one week from that day Miss
Hinchelwood. accompanied by he
mother, met DR.. Searle in London. an,
the three drove TO the residence OF Mr.
Ogilsby. He was in the care of a wo
man who had been his housekeeper 10
many years, his wife having died som
forty years before. and he had neye
begotten any children. Mrs. and Mis-
!, Hinchelwood ut once assumed charg
of the old man, dismissed his physl
, clan and placed him under DIR. Searle'
care. That he might not be obliged &
rely on any medical assistance I'm
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