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Show could locate, would inherit $17,000. ' VVillium Cato is another of the great intestate for whose heirs the administrator adminis-trator is lookiug. Cato was no tramp or news vender. Ho was a marine in the service of the United States, and had been one for such a length of time that he had only a vague memory of what he had been before. His comrades had an idea that he was Scotch, and that is all they could toll about him. ne died suddenly sud-denly while still in the service, leaving f UNCLAIMED MILLIONS. FORTUNES -IN.-TifnANr' OF PUBLIC PUB-LIC 'ADMINicVRATORS. Strange Searches for Hr-ir to Large Fortunes lu Brooklyn A Strange IMe appearance The Fanil In Charge of the State Treasurers Keeps Increasing. Speaking roughly there is at the present pres-ent time over $.j,000,0()0 in hard cash in the hands of tho various state treasurers in this country awaiting the claim of legal heirs. This large amount has been deposited with tho treasurers from time to time by public administrators. Of this $.1,000,000 the New York state treasurer treas-urer has about .$2oO,000, and although he pays out now and then certified claims from the administrative fund it keeps Iteadily increasing in a ratio with the population of tho state. The public administrator of Brooklyn furnishes the following cases from his 1,000 or so he, had saved out of his small pay. Patrick Cresham lived on Third avenue, ave-nue, near Forty-sixth street, South Brooklyn, and was in good circumstances, circum-stances, nis wife died in the spring of 1889, and the loss drove him crazy. A week later he committed suicide. He left a good deal of property to which his little 4-5ear-old daughter was heiress. His brother, a well to do New York car- j riage builder, was the legal guardian of j the little girl, but there happened just ! then to be in the house a sister of the child's mother. She was on a visit from j Ireland, and had arrived just in time to i I see her sister die. The night of the day j j Cresham committed suicido the aunt : i took tho little girl stealthily out of her j bed and out of the honge, went over to Now York, and on the morning follow-! follow-! ing sailed for Queenstown in the Um- j bria. Mr. Cresham, the uncle and legal ' guardian, reported the theft to the po-j po-j lico, and they cabled to Queenstown to i have tho aunt arrested on her arrival in ' that port. Now, it happened that owing : to a great storm the Umbria could not j I put in at Queenstown, and so went di- I ; rcctly on to Liverpool, where no police j I were waiting for a handsome lady of the ' , name of Miss Crowe and liar 4-year-old ! niece. Miss Crowe and trv'3 child are 6till in Europe, and the legal fight has ' not yet been decided. New York Tele- ! grain. . j record books: Thomas Wilson sold newspapers in Brooklyn's Twentieth ward for a generation. gener-ation. His route was an aristocratic one, comprising such streets as Clinton and Clermont avenues, in which nro the homes of millionaires. Ho peddled his wares in nil sorts of weather, appeared Dii the streets in rain and shino every day nnd far into the night, and even made a feeble at tempt to bravo the fury of the big blizzard of March 12, 1888. lie hud no friends, no confidants, no associations, as-sociations, and he lodged in tho attic of a niiserablo tonomrnt house. One day in the spring of 1889 his legs refused to curry him along his route, and he went 'lor succor and Rhelter to the Brooklyn hospital. Hero he was warned that he had but a short time to live and was told to communicate com-municate with hifl friends, if he had any. Old Tom shook his head negatively and died that night without making a sign. Five bank books were found under lus pillow, showing three or four thousand thou-sand dollars to his credit in different institutions. in-stitutions. The administrator could learn nothing about him in the banks, where he had told different stories about himself. him-self. It is thought he was of Swedish origin and that his real name was Nil-eon, Nil-eon, not Wilson. THE CASE OP I.ANOIER, Then there was Joseph Langier, a name common enough in the south of France, in Marseilles especially. Langier was also a solitary man, living or, rather, grubbing in an Atlantic avenue garret. He paid the janitor a dollar a month for his miserable room. Ho went out and he camo in, spoko to nobodyand answered cmestions by shaking or nod-diny nod-diny his head. One day he went forth for the last time staggered and fell at the next corner, was talrcn into a saloon, thence conveyed in an ambulance to Long Island Collego hospital, where he died alter a few hours. In the pockets of his coat were found bonds, mortgages and bank books worth $17,000 to the owner, also a will drawn up in excellent legal phraseology and j written iu a b'-antiful hand. His signa- I ture was affixed to tho will, but it lacked tho names of witnesses. So careful had he been in preparing the instrument that ho affixed an explanatory paragraph, para-graph, underlined in red ink. In a codicil codi-cil ho revokes tho will, so that he really died intestate. Rumor says Langier's h-. ir is a nephew living in Marseilles, a ibtur' son, whom, if tho administrator ' |