Show T T T- T 1 of rf Three e Miser and Their Their H Hoarded ard d T Tre r S sur s re 1 J F V w wERE of off ERE are are the stories f the of three mERE F- F FH H H misers One On of these 1 L r put tut his savings away securely BO so securely that be found OUD e the they cannot the other two were were- more careful cardul about about hiding their ther Identity than their that their fortunes re remain remain re 1 their money so main t reclaimed been lost has The miser whose money was Richard T ley Denton Denoon He Ho was an n Englishman who i ted as a ayoung ayoung with strict economy h he young man but managed to to keep this money intact until he was sixty five he grew crow row old oId When en died and feeling years Jears of age ago his wife he should make his home with a aber am m member ber of his family h he be decided to live with his hia daughter a Mrs Rachel Mine Anno Hone resident in Rahway N N. J. J Accordingly Ac Ac- eor cordingly be he o ed from Liverpool In hi the litter latter part Dart art of 1863 and arrived In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York on cn a ft bleak autumn evening H Hf His J tIM night ashore he spent in a cheap cheat lodging house hOmle o on the writer water front for he did cUd not the tho idea of ot finding his way war through unfamiliar parts at night es cs especially es- es as 88 he ho had lila his with him I He Re arrived at Mr Mrs Hones Hone's home next and that I day without mishap however afternoon n he and the Hone family had a nl feast feut for their eyes yes when ho spread his bisi fortune ont out on n a table It was an enticing I ing ng tg pile Ine of ot gold old ld composed of soy sov Mrs Hone felt nervous with all aU that money In the house and so she suggested that he lie bank the money at the thel first opportunity consequently the two started for New York next morning with the gold in two canvas bags that were wrapped in newspapers They went to the banking district which at that time centred around the City Hall Hail and while the daughter stood waiting at atOle atthe atthe the Ole corner of Mf Broadway and Chambers street treet the father went on In search of or a a aa bank a k She stood there thero only fifteen minutes for at nt the end of that lapse of Sr eI time ho bo returned and told her that li I had found the sort of bank he wanted and bad had deposited tho the money But ho bo was wasn wasa 89 n a shrewd and reticent old man and md to nil all her inquiries as 88 to th the loca location on and aDd name of the bank he would give ghe no answer ho had done this Not many months after Richard Denton was stricken with apoplexy and died without being abl able to give any directions that would lead to the locating of his bis money There were no bank books found among his effects nor did he leave any papers that gave a n. clue and to this day II those two bags babS of gold remain unfound Every bank that was nB doing business in that day has hns been raDl ransacked but to no DO avail avaH A daughter I of Mrs Hone Hono has hns continued the search down to the present but it is not li likely ely that she will find the ilie money Perhaps some bank clerk stole it and covered up his deed or perhaps Richard Denton hid bid the money overnight and carried decoys on the morning he and he-and and his daughter went to Manhattan Michael n l King was another miser whose death brought about bout a mystery King was born horn in Ireland in 1837 and when he be was three years old ld his parents died l leaving a ving him and a younger sister to the care of f their grandparents Th The boy stayed with the old p people ople until h he was eighteen years old when ho went to America and not long afterward his sister left Ireland to go to England For Forn Fora n a time the brother and sister kept in touch with each other but after a while all correspondence between them ceased The years yeara passed Michael King grew to manhood and took a wife Mary RuSsen Russell Rus Bus sell sen of Troy N. N Y whom he married in 1802 A few years later his wife died No o children had been born to the couple I so 0 being lonely Michael again married This time he became the husband of aNew aNew a aNew New York Tork girl Miss Elizabeth Cunning Cunning- g- g ham barn No children resulted from froni this union unton either eitner arid when this second wife wire died he ng again n found himself a lonely widower Evidently King was ivas was not aman a man who had any dislike e for the yoke of marriage for he ne married a third time He led Miss Hannah Reagan of New I I d j II I ll I r I t J rf I n 11 f I I I jl i 1 1 I 1 i I II 1 n Ii f w I- I I r I l r I IU J I i I j IIi j I II I L j. j lid II I iI f l I t J 1 I c u I I V t X J fJ F I J. J 11 II II w I 2 Ih t v I v a t A I 4 I Z 2 2 pl oJ r rI rr Ii fi Of J gf df Ir V I r i l lItI rg S I I b. b S u 1 ll ItI l t 1 i Z J 4 7 I i ii rl W II f 1 M VV g A j q Q 2 l rl p Y Vit l. II X II IJ n 1 i j 1 Jr I. I 1 v 4 1 J r. r 1 y hit J i I l J 1 S i J r c i J 1 t 5 J r or t I S J It Was an Enticing Pile of Gold Com Composed of Sovereigns York city to the the altar hi in th the thc summer bummer of child a n son But nut the boy li lived only two she died diell in ill Au August leaving him a L 1885 This his wi wife who was the sister of years and was buried in Calvary Cerne- Cerne wi widower ower for the third thin time Police Captain Reagan b bore re Kings King's first t tory tery ry survived the mother too for After her death King ICing moved to an old L rundown tenement at nt No o. o 8 Downing r n street New York Here he led the life of a sort of hermit lie He had bad very cry little intercourse with his nei neighbors they know him only as a n miserly old man of seventy who worked at nt nIght as a watchman and antI who k kept pt to himself during tb the day The Thc few that ever ver caught a n glimpse glimps of the Interior of the thc flat fiat in which he lived Jived were impressed with the nesA meagre-nesA with t which it was wag furnished and the unkempt condition of the place c As Ac the months went by this old carpenter c carpentry had been his trade in his bis youth became one of or the characters of old Greenwich Village Vil Vii loge lage and such he be continued to be until his death in June 1007 He Ht died alone without previous medical attendance This rids latter circumstance circumstance circumstance circum circum- stance necessitated a visit of the coroner and while that official was making makins an anI examination of the place he came acro across I bank books which showed that Michael ichael Jin King was a n depositor in twelve bunks banks s. s This old miser who managed to pet get ct along with almost I lo s than a I. I sufficient sufficient suf suf- suf amount of food died worth 12 As soon as the coroner found that the man had died dic-d a n natural death the effects were turned o over to the Public Administrator and search was started for forthe forthe forthe the mans man's heirs heir Agents were immediately hume imme sent to In Ireland land to look up theman's the mans manH sister hut but they Uley found not the tho least trace of oC her nor of any member of Kin Kings King's s 's fam family Jy If she sho is still alive she ho he heis is n a woman of w three seventy nt cc and ind quite le possibly sh she would welcome nn an inheritance of l She Silo is the only onty heir that theIa tho the thoIn In law Ia- w will ihl r recognize otherwise the money y would c have been disposed of a 1 year or so son sono sonso n no o when Patrick Russell brother of Kings King's first wife put in a n claim to it And while WhilO the thc search for 1 chapIs sister goes on the lies waiting b in the cit city treasury The Thc third miser was a man who was known to frequenters of the Tenderloin as Kane Kolle the Ule Cabby For forty 3 years Jars cars Frank k I D. D Kane Kune dro drove r cab about the ba gay gaj part of town and md during that time made madeL the thc acquaintance of o man many sports saloon keepers gamblers policemen and others who haunt the thc Tenderloin for busi- busi a r less or 11 pleasure filename That wa T lS before the 4 I advent of the taxicab and a n cabman D hadan had hadan an individuality then Hence lan Kant j e ve nickname ij His for Cor a 3 good years was wi P in f front of Rectors Rector's J l and md was a tire tive one But the fact that he took i in i l goodly g sized fees rec almost every did tiler not lead leat Kane Kano to spend freely He carefully care care- fully banked N all he got ot and would t draw 1 out on such sums sum n as i he required to j for his living li lie He was nas in fact 1 n miser and like mo most t mIsers raisers bad had a mistrust of of- of banks which led lerl him to divide his bis de de- posits among no less than ten institutions j For sixteen ye years previous to his death in lilOS Kane lived Ji in a hou house In 11 n East Eat Fortieth street He lie was friendly with his fellow boarders boarder hut but by no m means intimate Not even his bib landlady could break brenk down the mans man's reserve 11 1 hut it was 1 understood in the house that he h ha hail ul a i f past evidently c his right name wax wu t not Kane for that is the name of or of oC Ireland and this mans man's features plainly showed that he lw was is-as of Jewish extraction Only once did diet he ho let lct any Information on concerning II his s youth escape him He lie ro-j ro marked casually during an m ordinary conversation con coI- conJ on that he ht had been e born in Ch Chic Chi Chi- c cago o that his hi parents hall hail died when wilen he was waH very cry yo young un and anil that his boyhood 1 had d been spent on a u farm in Illinois An AtuT that is all that is known about him him His death was a sudden one Ho He wn tj survived survell ell only by nn an old oll bI bay baj mare marc and an ancient cab After waiting for the theman's theman's the mans man's heirs to appear the Public sold both of these and aud with the money laou bought ht a prove grave e in Cem Ceni I tery Frank Frnnk D. D Kane ics 8 in th that it grave r e Frank Frnnk D. D Kaul is the iu inscription on ot th the tombstone but hut it means He Hemi HeI Ic I mi might ht just ns as wen well have been becu burled buried nr- nr r fin any other name in so 50 far as ns that identifies him And it I is important that he be bc identified for in the city tren treasury there are ninny many thousands of dollars wait ait iu ins big for any auy one who will bring forth a legal claim to it 5 J A stirring tale in which is divulged the secrets and operations o of a band o of will be the subject o of next weeks week's article S |