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Show MILLIONS ARE MIXED IN NEW YORK ESTATES Green and Ogden Families Hare Trouble Because of Destroyed Papers; Bookkeeper Gone. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Executors and trustees of , the large estates left by William B. Ogden, Mariana A. Ogden and Andrew H. Green are reported to have found themselves unable, to lay hands on records of transactions in , connection with the properties during the last two years. Funds amounting to something less than $200.000 are said to be unaccounted for by the books and papers on hand. Efforts to find the private pri-vate secretary and confidential man of Mr. Green have been under way for a month, but without success. No charges have been made against any person, but the trustees and executors are stated to have Issued a large number num-ber of subpoenas for clerks and others in the hope of securing some light on the matter. Andrew H. Green (whose life was ended in 1903 by a nogro who had mistaken mis-taken him for John K. Piatt) was trustee trus-tee for the William B. Ogden estate, which owns great tracts of real estate In the upper section of the city. The estate es-tate was one of the richest In the city and Mr. Green watched it with the closest care. Mr. Green was a very cautious man about paying out money. He held that It was easier to pay out slowly than to pay out fast and make vain efforts to recover. William B. Ogden was the president of the Chicago & Northwestern railway and later of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. He was one of the earliest Mayors of Chicago. In his late years he resided here. Mrs. Ogden died last September. The Green and Ogden properties were closely allied and a great mass of correspondence, cor-respondence, books, etc., accumulated In Mr. Green's offices. These were under un-der the closest care of the expert bookkeeper book-keeper for whom the trustees are now searching. Soon after Mr. Green's death the building where he had offices was disturbed by remodeling and It became be-came necessary to remove all the documents. docu-ments. They were separated by the representatives of the two estates and only recently it became apparent that there was going to be difficulty in winding wind-ing up the affairs. Both sets of books and papers were searched, but none was found which would give any clue to the transaction of .the last two years. Unless the books and papers are found! millions of dollars' worth of property may be thrown into almost Inextricable confusion and litigation. The missing man. who was familiar with all the books and papers. Is also treasurer of a large storage and warehouse ware-house company In Harlem. It could not be learned that he had visited the offices of-fices of that concern since early In December De-cember last, while the only address the employees could give was a downtown hotel where the treasurer had not lived In a year or more. |