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Show FORTUNE IS HUNTING GILL Id Story M New Features. r Charles L Gill Joined Theatrical The-atrical Company to Hunt Lost Rrother. Had Cluo in This City but It Shed No . Light Will Continue Search. Charles L. Gill Is combing down America Ameri-ca to find his brother. Missing heir to a fortune, this brother Ih hidden from all thoso who onco knew him. Until ho Is discovered nn qstato of $700,000 will bo tied up. With'' tho departure of "The Runaways" company from Salt Lake City last evening wont what noemod to bo tho last hopo of discovering this man. The story, common enough In America so far as Its essential facts aro concerned. Is ombelllshcd by features that mnko It sound more like fiction than reality. But It is true onough to keep nearly $1,000,000, loft by a Now York soap manufacturer, away from four children. Loft Home to Hunt Gold. Joseph L. Gill Is tho name of tho missing miss-ing man. Ho loft homo sixteen years ago Ho had everything ho wanted, bo for as pleasure and good environment go. But for somo strange reason tho gold fever that has lured men to all tho odd corners of tho earth, seized this son of a woalthy father. Ho loft homo for Australia; and when ho got there ho plunged Into tho wilderness. From that tlmo ho was as completely cut off from his relatives ns though tho earth had swallowed him. They hoard no tidings of him for years. What his wanderings wero; what his nd-venturcs nd-venturcs they do not know. Evidently fortuno was not kind, for two years ago they heard from tho American Consul In Melbourne that Joseph L. Gill had applied ap-plied for passago to his native land. But this Is running ahead of tho story After Joseph Gill loft home his brothors and sisters grew to manhood and womanhood wom-anhood In New York. Three years ago tho father died. Soon after the mother paused away. Tho estate of $700,000 was left to the children. It could not bo divided di-vided until Josnh Gill was found. Then camo a messago two years ago from tho American Consul In Melbourne. It told how Joseph Gill had asked to be sent to America. Charles L. Gill, tho eldest of tho children, cabled to tho Consul asking whether the man woro out of funds. Ho purposed to send money to him If this wore tho caso. But answer never camo to this message. Slneo that' tlmo tho family has spent probably J5C00 trying to find tho missing member. Only a multltudo of Impostors and many blind leads havo como as a result of all this oxponso. And so Charles GUI finally choso a novel means to attain tho end all havo sought. Ho Joined Uio "Runaways" company com-pany In New York. He did It with tho Idea of getting from city to city nnd perhaps during tho tour learning something some-thing of Joseph's whereabouts. Heard of Brother in Salt Lake. When the company was In Butto Charles Gill heard of a Joseph Gill In Salt Lako City. He traced down tho report re-port when ho camo to thl3 city and found that It, like many predecessors, shed no light on tho mystery. This ho learned Saturday. When "The Runaways" left Salt Lako City last ovonlng all leads and cluca had been oxhausted. "I shall contlnuo the search," said he, yesterday. "It is nccessnry that my brother bo found or proved legally dead before this estate can b settled " Mr. Gill was rotlcent In talking of tho subject. It hns been given wide publicity In former years and tho family shrink from further newspaper talk. Ho stated, howover. that ho took his position with "Tho Runaways" company lnrgely with tho idea of hunting down his brother and hopes by this moans to accomplish It. |