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Show A FORT USE FOR A PAUPER. An Inmate of the Butte Poorhouse Heiress to $8,000,000. Butte, Moiit., Oct. 19. Mrs. Anna A. Dydge, an inmate of the poorhouse of this city and 80 years of age, received notice yesterday that she is heir'to an estate worth $3,000,000 in England. The story dates back two centuries, at which time her great grandfather on her mother's side owneii, a 1 va!t fstati. near I.mwlon Tf is oldest son r.. moved to America, settling and marrying in Virginia. Two children, William and Annie were born of the marriage, the latter the mother of Mrs. Dodere. The son and his wife died and the two children moved to Kentucky. Both married, the son dyiiig without issue and the daughter daugh-ter marrying William Coleman. Both died forty years ago, having Mrs. Dodge and a sister. They move d to Missouri, where Mrs. Dodge's husband died twenty years ago. Five years ago an article appeared in an English paper telling of the estate and the lost heirs and the fact that the estate was in the hands of the public administrator, Mrs. Dodge became convinced that it vag her family whose history was related. She laid the case before a relative named Ross recently re-cently of Minneapolis, and he went to London Lon-don to investigate the matter. He returned an encouraging letter, butsiiice then nothing has been heard from him, and it is not known where, he is. Then; it is said, she placed the matter in the hands of her nephew, William T. Coleman, Cole-man, a wealthy canning manufacturer of San Francisco. Meanwhile she came to Butte to visit her daughter, Mrs. Charles Ragsdale. She was taken sic-k and the accommodations ac-commodations not being good at the miner's cabin, she she was removed to the poorouse. She has now received letters confirming her right to the estate and forwarding letters, documents, a family Bible, etc., to prove her claim. |
