The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-29
kENOSHANS ARE
HEIRS TOFORTUNE
Mrs. M. Corr and Daughter,
Hortense, Fall Heir to Vast
Fortune from Dead
Kinsman.
AN ECHO OF TIE PAST
Estate, Yielding an Income Of More
Than $4,000, Comes from Former Illus
band Of Mrs. Corr and Father Of Girl
Disappeared Years Ago.

To find themselves suddenly wealthy
is the experience of Mrs. Michael Corr,
sos Superior street and her daughter,
Hortense, school girl at the Lincoln
school, who have recently received
letter from a California attorney In
forming them that they are the heirs
to vast estate of oil lands in Mexico
which will yield the two Of them an
income Of $4,000. The legacy comes
from John Callahan, the former hus-
band Of Mrs. Corr and the father Of
the girl and comes as an echo of
life lived in California, and which the
Kenoshans had long ago considered 8
closed chapter.
The letter explains that the husband
and father has recently died and in his
will has named his wife and daughter
as the largest benefciaries Of his es-
tate. The total value of the estate is
not known but 1t is declared that the
annual income from it far exceeds the
annuities granted to the Kenoshans.
Disappeared Very strangely
The bequest recalls the early life of
Mrs. Corr and her daughter She spent
her girlhood in St. Joseph, Michigan,
and more than fifteen years ago ns&rried
John Callahan, her brothers. pal, and
together they started for the golden
west to make their home and their
fortune. There the daughter, Hortense,
now fourteen years old, was born and
only short time afterward, the, huss
band strangely disappeared leaving the
mother and child almost penniless.
Years came and went without any word
from him and after seven years, he
was legally declared dead
The mother and child several years
later came to Kenosha, where after
some time, Mrs. Callahan married
Michael Corr Of Kenosha and Hortense
Callahan, the daughter, was regularly
adopted as Hostense Corr Last week
the letter came from the California at
torney explaining the long absence Of
the husband and father and telling how
he had amply provided for them.
$4,000 Spending Money.
The will is one of the strangest docu-
ments in which any Kenoshan has ever
been interested. It states that of the
income of the estate, his former wife
whether she has remarked or not, Is
to receive $4,000 a year as long as she
lives" and that the daughter, Hortense,
lis to receive $4,000 a year as long as
II lsSv,r r,o1 000 oIL.+sc~c1 onal.
year for spending money
Mrs. Corr Is brother, Callahan s old
pal, is also left an annuity of $1,000 a
year and is named as executor Of the
estate. He has sent word from st.
Joseph, Michigan, that has also received
word of the bequest and Is taking steps
to secure the legacy.
The letter from California declares
that the money is now available and
that payments on all of the annuitieq
will start the first of March. 1T is EST
matted that the entire estate must be
valued in the neighborhood of 100000.
Perhaps an Enoch Arden. =
The explanation of the long disap-
pearance Of Callahan is that he may
have been an Enoch Arden and re-
turning to Kenosha to find his wife and
child in another home waited for his
death to reveal to them his provision
for their happiness. 1t is believed that
after leaving the home in California,
he went to Mexico where he suddenly
struck it rich and Immediately plan-
ned to make amends for his seeming
neglect Of his wife ard child.