The evening world., 1912-03-26
100000
las REWARD FOR
FATHERS HERO|SM
English Solicitor Brings Charles
A. Tunley, Standard Oil Ac-
. cOuntant, News of Fortune.
llCHES LEFT BY WOMEN.
aren't of Brooklyn Man, Who
Is Now Dead, Had Saved
Their Lives.
klCHES LEFT BY WOMEN.

In a none too luxurious lo~dging-house
Greene avenue, Brooklyn. lives
CHARLES a. Tunley with his wife and
roundings which suggests wealth or
Sevta comfortable circumstances. Yet
this Is the story which Mr.. Tunley, a
young man of apparently u~nimaginative
temperament. has been telling his
Friends since Feb. q:
At work at his desk as a certified ac-
Icountant In the offices OF the Standard
ION Company that day. the card OF Mr..
Hamilton. a solicitor at Wexford. Essex.
sEngland, was brought to him. solicitor
Hamilton wanted Mr.. Tunley to go out
with him for tea at the Waldorf.
Z Mr.. Rockefelier's successors at No. 20
Broadway are Just as particular as was
the old gentleman himself about letting
h his II men 10 out to play In busi-
J ness hours. Mr.. Tuniey met Solicitor
Hamilton at the Waldorf and was his
guest oil dinner.
SOLICITOR ASKED HIS GUEST
MANY PERSONAL QUESTIONS.
solicitor Hamilton asked many ques
tlons. who was Mr.. Tunley's father
Had he ever been In a general store
4 and commission business In the Barba-
does? Before that had he lived In Bos-
ton? Had he ever spoken OF three
women who once lived In Beacon street
Mrs. Elisabeth Woodbridge. Mrs. James
LHoopsr and Miss Mary Brown? Had
the elder Tunley when a boy saved
these from death In a runaway
ecident? Had they suggested to his
hther that they would like to adopt
)harles? And so on.
= Dir. Tunley was able to reply In the
Z usbrirat!ve to adj these questions and
- many other tests regarding his iden-
tits. Solicitor Hamilton then produced
>t.oo0 and handed It TO Tuniey.
MY friend" he said II have been
seeking o for seven years since the
death Of Miss Brown IN w~elford-the
last OF the sisters. She inherited the
fortunes OF the other two and in 1901
y made a will leaving all to your father,
pr In event of his death to you. Tho
mount Is 100000. or approximately
100000. This small advance which I
Ssc usNuSu you u W ciiUU1c you 10 go
- Barbados and get proofs OF your
Asntty and thon 20 to England and
claim your inheritance"
NOW NE 10 GOING TO FIND THE
4 NECESSARY PROOFS.
Young Mr.. Tunley hurried back TO
Brooklyn with the glad tidings. lie did
! not move into more comfortable lodgings.
He considered the matter for Il month.
taking counsel with an attorney,
Donald T. Ayres. And nov he has an
ounced to his landlady and other in
terested persons that In April he will
sail for Barbados with his wife ana
, child and a nurse and Lawyer Ayres
aud George f.. Ceilings. a broker. to
collect his proofs. They will accompany
him to England. ne says. and when he
comes back he will form a brokerage
( partnership with Mr.. Collinss.
. u IL not at all surprising. Mr.. Tunley
says. h q Solicitor Hamilton had 80
much trouble tracing him. Since his
4fsther died In 1905 he has been a purser
fOn the Trinidad steamship line, q busl-
{nees college student and a travelling
xeestifed accountant until ne married
4l0s Ethel A, SOnner in August. 1910.