| Show aa ess jmj FORTUNES UNCLAIMED of dollars awaiting their owners how money which BelS neato ered nelra in the band of state tras speaking roughly there is at theares cut time over in hard cashan the hands 0 f the various state treasur ers in this country awaiting the claim ofa egal heirs this large amount says tho new York Telegram has been do posited with the treasurers treasur ers from timo to time by public administrators of this tho new york slate treasurer has about and pays out now and therecer rifled claims from the administrative fund it keeps steadily increasing in a ratio the population of the alato the public administrator of brooklyn furnishes the following cases record books thomas wilson sold newspapers in brooklynn Brook lyns twentieth ward for a generation era tion an aristocratic one comprising such streets as clinton and CI ormont avenues in which aro tho homes of millionaires ho peddled his wares in all sores of weather appeared on the streets in rain and shine every day and far into the night and oven made a feebly attempt to brave the fury of tho big blizzard of march 13 1883 ho had no friends no confidants no associations and he lodged in the attic of a miserable tenement house ane day in the spring last year his legs refused to carry him along his route and he went for succor and shelter to the brooklyn hospital hereto wa warned that he bad but a short timela live and was jold to hie friends if he had any negatively and died that night without malting a sign bank books were found under his pillow showing or 0 o his credit in different institutions the administrator could icam soothing sio thing aboul him in the banks whore ho had told differ himself it is thought he basof swedish origin and that his real name was nilsen not Wil sou then there was joseph langdor Lan glor a name common enough in the south of prance in marseilles especially langler was also a solitary man livings living 0 r rather grubbing in an atlantic avenue i garret ha paid the janitor 1 a month for his miserable room ho went out and came in spoke to nobody and answered questions by shaking or nodding his head one day he went forth for the last time staggered and fell at the next corner was taken into a saloon thence conveyed in an ambulance to along island college hospital where ho died after a few haars hoars in the pockets of his coat were found bonds mortgages sandbank and bank books worth to the owner also arwill drawn up in excellent legal phraseology and written in a beautiful hand his signature wa affia ed to therill the will but it lacked of witnesses so careful had he been in preparing tha instrument that ho added an explanatory paragraph underlined in red ink in a codicil he revokes the will so thai he really died intestate turner heir is a nephew li marseilles a sisters son whom it the administrator could locate would inherit with one years interest william cato is another of the graap int estates for whose heirs the adminis y orator is looking cato tramp 0 ho was a marine in iw service of tho united states and had been one for such a length of time that ho had only a vague memory of what ho had been before his comrades had an idea that hib was scotch and that is all they could tell about him he died suddenly last spring while still in he service leaving one thousand dollars or so haf had saved out of his linail pay if is probable that an old woman allvin io Wigton shire scotland may tie found with valid claims to this one thousand dollars patrick cresham lived on third avenue near Porty sixth street south brooklyn and was in stances bis wife died in the sp a ring of 1889 and the loss drove him crazy A week later he committed suicide ho left a good deal of property to aich his little four year ld daughter xv as heiress his father a well to do new nago builder hafi the legal guard ian ot the little girl but there happened just in the house th 0 childs mother she was on a frodi r ireland and had arrived just in time toi see her sister die the night crasham committed suicide the aunt took the little girl stealthily oa of her bed and out of the house wendover to new york and on the morning following sailed for queenstown Queens town in the urn abna mr crasham the uncle and legal guardian reported the theft to tho police and they cabled to queenstown Queens town to have the aunt arrested on hr arrival in that port ow it happened that w 0 tae umbria could d queenstown Queens town and so went directly on to policed were waiting fora handsome lady name of crobo and her adur yearld niece miss crowe and still in europe and the legal fight Tia T c y |
