The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-11
LANES FORTUNE GONE; RELATIVES
 WANT INQUIRY Fraternal Associates and Local i Police Begin Investigation
 of PugiIist's Death ONLY SMALL SUM
 LEFT WHEN HE DIED Fragmentry Details of His Peri Ious Quest for Gold Filter
 Through to Relatives

With the burial of Harry Lane for mer champion New England pugilist
 hotel proprietor, and gold hunter in
 the Northwest. beside the body of his sister in Park cemetery, Bridgeport today. began 8 widespread search for
 facts concerning his death and the
 disposition of his fortune, Superin-
 tendent Birmingham who knew Lane well has written to police chiefs of
 the national organization asking them to use their efforts in uncovering the 1 mystery that surrounds his death and
 the disposal of his supposedly large fortune, and the San Francisco Ex-
 aniner is reported as having sent spe- -cial representatives into the Far North to trace the clues already dis
 covered as to his fatal trip into the Arctic circle in search of gold From information already received in this city and letters written to his m other before starting on the Jour ney into the perennia11y frozen district of Alaska, it has been learned that shortly before he was brought from Alaska. to Portland, Oregon, to die. Lane was one of a party of six TO- bust miners who attempted perilous Journey to a, little known section of the Alaskan Arctic regions. Word has been received that of the six Lane was the only one to return and from fragmentary details of the trip it is learned they were oVertaken in a terrible ,blizzard, which resulted in the mems dying, one by one, general by a might while in their full sleep ing bags. As the remaining party would awake in the morning they. would have to bury a cornrade. until Lane only survived. < How he reached Nome is not fully known. As it is believed that he possessed a fortune from the sale. of his thriving hotel
  ton can be obtained by mail, it is believed that the circumstances war rant the strictest Investigation ; Mrs. Anna Lane, his mother has disclosed the fact that at the time of the death of his sister. Clara, in this city, he was greatly distressed and wrote to his mother that he had sold his hotel ssThe Californian at Cinema Pass. Alaskf1a. which he had run successfully for several years with a partner, George Rowan. and intended to return home. The next fnforTna- ton was that published in the col umns of The Farmer to the effect that he. was dying in Riverside hospital, nenr Portland, Oregon, where he had been since October 13, 1918.
 Inquiry by the local body of Elks of which he was a member, of George Waldo Coe, proprietor of the hospi- tai has disclosed that at the death 
 ance on hand from the fund which had been placed with them for his care
 It has been learned that Lane, as in the east, lived a, most abstemious life and was successful as a hotel proprietor. While in Alaska he took great pride in the acquisition of dog best team in that country, known widely as '%The Pride of Alaska In formation obtained by special news paper representatives said to have been sent from San Francisco is eag4 erly awaited here. Superintendent also awaits information | from police chiefs in Portland and cities.
 The services were held today at 2:3O from the nortuary chapel of Walker & Banks. Following out the l wish of his mother. the services were l private and attended only by relatives and delegation from Bridgeport | yon. rector of St. Pau1's Episcopal church, officiated. Nearer My God to Thee and ''The Vacant Chair were sung by the Elks' quartet. The Elks committaI service was concluded at the grave in Park cemetery by the | officers of the lodge.
 The bearers were from the Eiks and comprised members who had
  been closely associated with Lane in the old days, both as personal friends and with him at the old Barnun gym nasium, later the Bridgeport Athletic club, located where the McMahon & Wren building on Water street. now is. They were Police Sergeant l. B. Will Hans, Policeman Otto Kraft, Fritz Hartmann. John Shea, Thomas J. Y oungs and John Lynch.
 Among the family nourners were his mother, Mrs. Anna Lane, of New York city, Mrs Louis Beuhl or Ja- maica. L. L. MT. and Mrs. William Haberle, MT. and Mrs Adam Stein bach, and MT. and Mrs. Hugo Heyse, of Bridgeport The body was laid beside that of his sister in Park ceme- terry in compliance with one of the ast wishes of the deceased as well as that of his dead sister.
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