The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-04
WILLIAM Smith, '"PAUPER, dies,
Leaving FORTUNE
Dudley Jarne, Bowery Derlect Lived Thirty Years in New
York Lodging Houses, Identity Undisclosed Prop
erty Valued at $500, 900 in His Possession.

I ing Jardine's right name, and this
brought a response from John Shedd
a lawyer. Of AZ Cedar Street, New York.
| VIII Is Located.
Mr.. Shedd said that he had drawn Mr..
Jardine's will and was ready to pro-
duce it. He did so and by, its terms it
was found that Jardine, all the time
posing on the Bowery as poor man, had
fortune, which will reach $780, 600.
Mention was made in the will of GER
tain gilt edged bonds. and these were
found later in Jardine's strong bog in
| the vaults of the Standard Safe Deposit
Company at % Broad Street. These
bonds have a present market value.
Frederick Jardine said last night, of
Sis. 900.
Besides Mr.. Jardine has found one
deposit of $4,000 iH the United States
Guaranty and Trust Company, and he
believes that his uncle had large de-
posits elsewhere, as memoranda indi-
Gated that he had money in the Bow
cry, the Seamans and possibly other
savings banks.
Division of Estate.
Half of the estate is left to Fred
erick Jardine, Mrs. Thomas F. De Voe
of Elmhurst, Long Island, and to
George Hogg, children of Dudley Jar
dimes brother and sister, and the other
half goes to charity. The institutions
which will benefit are the Prison AS
ISOLATION Of New York, the Woman's
Branch of the New York City Mission
and Tract Society, the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions, and the
New York Protestant Episcopal City
Mission Society.
Somewhere in the life Of Dudley Jar
dine was romance. Among his papers
were found many letters addressed to
and received from a woman only men,
toned in them as Maggie True Love-"
That Maggie True Loce" was of the
East Side is probable. for she died in
a hospital to which Mr.. Jardine often
sent wine, jelly, fresh eggs, and other
dainties which are not furnished in
charity wards. This is all shown by
the letters.
Il know very little about my uncle's
life-next to nothing. indeed" said
Frederick Jardine in Upper Montclair
today. His father, Edward Jardine,
died in 1881, and. as I understand the
case, Uncle Dudley was dissatisfied
with the will. At any rate he sold out
his share of the organ firm to his
brothers, Edward G. and Joseph P,
and just cut himself off from the fam
lly anu Went 10 i've Il KNOW ne
has lived for all these years on the
Bowery, and / used to see him occa-
sionally. usually at funerals.
A Promise FULFILLED.
The last time I saw him was at the
funeral of a cousin. He said to me
then: Fred, you have always treated
me well, and 1 want you to promise
me one thing. When ! die / want you
to see that / am buried in the family
plot in Trinity Cemetery. Promise me
that and you will find some time that
things will be better for you"
Jardine was buried as his nephew
promised. in Trinity Cemetery, on Feb
ruary IA.
Cornelius B. Gold. a retired banker.
who lives at the Collingwood Hotel, 45
West Thirty-fifth Street, is one of the
executors of the will. and on him Jar
dine used to call occasionally. AS ex-
ecutor Mr.. Gold is to receive 81 900 in
addition TO the legal commission. The
other executor, Richard Hamilton, for
merly cashier Of the Bowery Bank, is
dead.