The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-22

Alvin o. Edwards had been found dead the
streets year before. Papers found on his person
proved he had to the city to conduct investga
tions similar to nine The coroner said he had died
from heart failure Well, maybe it was heart fail
When a fortune of six billion dollars is at
stake one life less matters little. Neverthe-
less, it was lesson in caution and took It in just
that light determined not to die Of heart failure.
Il went to a well known firm of lawyers for adj
vice. They told me it was common knowledge that
the Trinity Corporation had no title to the estate
except royal grant from Queen Anne. got busy
and got chance to examine the grant 1t then
in the hands of a firm of contractors, employed by
the corporation for some work the estate but who
would not go on with the job unless they had the
grant in their hands as security. I made careful
copy Of the boundaries of the property and after q
personal inspection of the land astonished to
find that the grant embraced but third Of the land
held by the corporation
Subsequently l discovered that it had been the
custom of the corporations counsel to the
grant in the face of claimants to the property so
that they went home blufed. The grant, after my
comparison of the holdings with the description in
the document, meant nothing to me, l stayed
longer than my predecessors. looked the ground
almost inch at time and made Trinity's
attorneys uneasy. 1t is needless to say that every
and after pursuing my inquiries as far as was pos
sibe returned to Toronto, reporting my findings to
a second meeting of the Weber heirs
my next step to get positive proof of my
descent from Weber l wrote to Holland and Eng
land for information about the Webbers from their
very beginning and the replies steel engrav-
ing, autographed photograph of Lady Adelaide
Weber mother of Samuel Weber, my mothers
great grandfather, born in Oakhampton England,
in 1888. Until the receipt of this picture We had
been unable to learn of Samuel Webber's antece-
dents and with this picture in my hands l had posi-
tive proof of my descent from the old Dutch nobility
Lady Weber descended from William Weber,
brother of Wolfert Weber.
Luck was with me in my investigations from
this point forward. By rare good fortune met an
individual-Mr Blank, / viii call him-who present
ed me with copy Of the Weber family tree and
able to verify my findings concerning my de-
scent from Lady Adelaide Weber Having so much
information in my possession not enough for
wished to have positive confederation from other in
dependent before presenting myself again
the heads of Trinity Corporation
II therefore advertised in English papers for rela-
tives and this act brought me to the climax of my
search. 1t was a climax such as 1 would never have
permitted my thoughts to contemplate even in a
moment of romantic fancy and resulted also in a
whirlwind change Of attitude on the part of Trim
itys representatives.
among the replies to my advertisement was q
letter from the widow of cousin also Weber and
after brief correspondence learned from her the
whole secret underlying the Webber mystery. This
relative it was who told of the marriage of An
neke Weber to black man. I quote from one Of
her letters 'Anneke married bIack-this is the
whole trouble and the reason the money was left
in such fashion. Her father requested the money
should not be inherited until the blood ran clean
which would be the seventh generation
"For proof of the story my cousins widow has a
tablet which is engraved Wolferts charge to the
Dutch government relative to his fortune Of twenty
million pounds Subsequently learned the story
in greater detail Wolfert Weber It seems was
anxious to consolidate his fortune in his East Indian
possessions and hit on the scheme of marrying on
his daughter to William Weber, cousin and promi-
nent shareholder in the company.
"Anneke, however, had ambitions of her own Her
uncle was William OF Orange and she realized that