New-York tribune., 1922-03-23
RinggPronnoter's
Dream of Gold
Mine Realized
Manager of Three ''Pugs''
Finds Unclc's Will Has
Made Him, Mother and ;
Brothers All M;lIionaires
EstatePut at $40. 100000
Fourth Of 1t Gocs to New
Rochelle Civil War Vet
eran Living on Pension

~'m 0'Connel, a fight promoter o.
Elizabeth, y. J.. dropped in at 1901
Walton Avenue. the Bronx, yesterday
q see his mother. Mrs. Helen O'Con-
nell. and found the cid lady doubly
glad to see him. Tim was balm for old
eyes any day, she assured him. but
here and now was n letter that had
come from lawyer and she hadn't
been able to lay her hands on her
glasses this dav. but unless the man
was q swindler. such as she had heard
there were in the West. there might
be a pot Of money IN 1t for Tim, for
It was all about gold mines and all.
Tim took the long envelope and read
comment and his hands did not trem-
Bile nor. when he spoke, did his voice,
for fight promoter and manager
with string of three pugs has always
feeling in his bones that he may
stumble on gold mine any day.
It's s1O,OOO,oO0 Legacy
The missive bore the letterhead Of
firm of attorneys in Spokane, Wash.
and was signed by j f. phitts, . mem
her Of the firm. 1t was to inform Mrs
O'Connell that her brother, Timothy
Mccarthy, had died February 10 at the
Catherine Hotel in Spokane, possessed
Of mining properties in Idaho, the
value of which Mn Phitts estimated at
about S40,0O000O.
Three days before his death, Mr.
Phtts went on, Timothy Mccarthy
his property to Mrs. Helen O'Conncll
snd her sons; one-foulth to the tes-
tator's brother. William Mccarthy, of
New Rochelle, and one-fourth each to
his sisters. Mrs. Mary Anna Richard
son and Mrs Hanora Buckley, of Cork,
Ireland To his brother Daniel, who
still is in Ireland, Timothy Mccarthy
left but s., because Daniel was pros
porous
There were 2l,167 shares of stock in
The Flvnn group of mines in the Coeur
dAlene country, $4,000 shares of stock
in the Senator mine, 360acrc ranch
near Spokane, and other property. The
mining property still was in process
Of development, the attorney wrote,
and only recently had begun to make
expended on it, He regarded it as
valuable. however. Gold, silver and
lead were being produced
Like True Promoter
The second time Timothy O'Connell
read the letter aloud. He has five
brothers and the letter probably
but Timothy O'Conncll read it without
fro,
"Its all there" he said. land it
seems straight, but ! must be getting
back to the boys for we've fight on at
the club tomorrow night and it means
Il lot TO them. They're good boys and
I'm going to stick to them, whatever
may come of this letter. Tomorrow.
perhaps. ! can find the time to see a
lawyer"
Mrs. O'Conncll wept, partly for grief
for that other Tim and partly for JOY
in this Tim and in his FIVE brothers,
not one of whom, she knew. would be
spoiled by the wealth. For herself
she did not want it. She was getting
along" being now eighty years old
was blessing to live to see this come
10 her boys.
William Mccarthy, who also inhcrits
quarter interest in the estate, is 81
veteran of the Civil War living on a
pension in a little house on Railroad
Avenue, New Rochelle.
Il didn't know my brother had made
much money" he said "and this inher-
itancc comes as windfall in my old
age 7 don't know how | shall use all
that money if get it."
He has retained William L. Moralx a
New Rochelle attorney, to look after
his interests.