The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-13
SCOTCH BANK HOLDS MONEY
Discovery Made that DR.. Dowie During
His Prosperous Years Laid Up LARGE
Sums for Rainy Widow May
be Able to Secure Funds Now Held.

While Mrs. John Alexander Dowie,
widow Of the late prophet Elijah
the Second, has been living in power
ty, some times in actual want in her
little cottage in Zion City, watching
the remains of her husband for fear
his successor, Wilbur Glenn Voliva
will have them removed, fortune
in the name Of John Alexander Dowie
has beer lying idle in q bank in Ed
inborough, Scotland.
That instead Of being in straight
ened circumstances she is in reality
wealthy beyond the fondest dreams of
avarice and, if she can prove her claim
to this money will be worth in her own
right up to 100000 or more, is the.
belief of those who knew Dowie close
ly and personally. That, if she is
able to secure possession of this vast
sum of money Of which there seems
to be no reason for doubt, she may
carry out her desires to bring back to
strength and power the old faction in
the City of Love which acknowledged
John Alexander Dowie as their only
leader, is the belief Of many. For
some time she has had this desire
deeply entrenched in her heart and
it was for this reason, it is supposed,
that she again took up her residence
in Zion City after having lived away
from her former home for some years
following the death Of her husband.
This startling information, strange
as it may seem, has after decade
been told by confidential servant
in the former Dowie mansion. At
the time of Dowie' death, when the
money in the bank across the seas
would have saved his religious king
dom, his mind became feeble, and it
is thought that he forgot all about
the vast sum that he had on deposit
in this vault in Scotland.
Every Saturday afternoon, for sew
eral years before his death, Dowie
would sit at his typewriter in his pri-
vate Office and with his own hand
write letter to his foreign bankers,
enclosing check for large sum
of money. Some times the draft was
for only a thousand; other times it
is said that he sent as much as
twenty thousand. All in all it is
thought that he sent several hundred
thousand dollars away in this man
ner. All the time unbeknown to his
wife, or to his family Just one serv-
ant knew of these proceedings and
the maid has now told the story.
Dowie would not even trust his
most confidential secretary with this
work-he did it all with his own hand
Laboriously he. wrote to his bankers
and signed the checks with his now
world famous signature. It is said
that the prophet did not miss sin
gle Saturday for at least five years.
Every week he would send this money
abroad and as far as is known none of
it has ever been drawn out. 1t is still
there, annually compounding interest.
A banker stated that in his opinion
the fortune would now amount to sew
eral hundred thousand dollars and per-
haps more.
Although it seems strange that moth
ing was ever done with this money
Dowie had lapse of memory before
his death, when he was in the greatest
need of money, the opinion of this
servant is that he simply forgot all
about it and left the fabulous sum on
deposit to his credit.
Apparently DoWie was saving some
thing for a rainy day, but when that
day came, he was unable to touch it,
The story runs that every letter was
registered and that they went regu-
10 WV from HE offipp