Show HE WAS HEIR TO MILLIONS Mystery of Daniel Snerldane Disap After pearance Is Cleared Away Many Years mdonThe mystery of tho disappearance disap-pearance of Daniel Sheridan the American claimant of the Blake Millions has been solved at last It Is some months since tho Star printed print-ed a story about the pathetic struggle of this IrishAmerican farmer to obtain ob-tain the fortune left by Mrs Helen Blake who died intestate In Ixindon In 1876 Her property then 700000 has been In the hands of tho crown ever since and counting the accumulated accumu-lated Interest Is now estimated to bo nearly 2500000 A letter just received by that newspaper news-paper from Daniel Sheridans son Joseph Jo-seph who lives In Quincy 111 reveals the fact that an old homeless nameless name-less man who died In Lambeth Infirmary In-firmary on December 19 1896 was the lost claimant for the millions Mrs Blake was Helen Sheridan a beautiful Irish girl when she was married to Capt Robert Dudley Blake a young officer of dragoons stations In Dublin He later became a general gen-eral Daniel Sheridan asserted he was Mrs Blakes cousin me son of her fathers elder brcher and ho came to London to prosecute his claim from Kankakce county Illinois in ISSfi being be-ing then a man of seventy He could not however obtain tho evidence ev-idence to satisfy the treasury that ho was the next of kin His money dwindled away he was heavily In debt for board and lodging and all the while his family were writing to him from America upon the idea that he had obtained the foitune and reproaching re-proaching him for deserting them For a time he was an Inmate of a workhouse On his discharge from there ho wrote to his son that he was going to Ireland to find some one who knew him as a boy That was tho last his family ever heard of him He seems to have wandered about helpless help-less hopeless a broken man until on December 6 1896 ho was once more admitted to the Lamberth Infirmary Ho gave no address aDd three days later he died |