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Show mm RECLUSE FOUND TOBE WORTH NEARLY A MILLION NEW TORK,. May l.--Reprntativ of th tat lunacy oommtMlon will apply ap-ply to tba court Nr thW wek for th appointment of rpr ntat.va to car for the atata of Ma Jano Parkins WU-llama, WU-llama, aa a! Brooklyn aplntr, wbooa wealth was revealed only toroucb her commitment to an aarlum. MIh William baa ben llvtns tha Ufa of a ractuae for many years In a oo-tory, oo-tory, dilapidated- frame shack on an undeveloped avenue In Brooklyn. Several Sev-eral days ago neighbor complained that; Miss Williams, who la 7ft years old. need- ed attention. Bhe was removed .to the i Lone Inland state hospital for tha In- j sane and yesterday special afenta went i to her bovel to find out something about her, as aha had resolutely refused to talk about herself. What the events found In the hovel gave them tba surprise sur-prise of their lives. Secured beneath thousands of old newspapers and heaps of trash they found storks, bonds, mortgage and other papers pa-pers representing nearly e6e,fto0, together to-gether with evidence that the recluse lias at least ff.fMt.000 mora In safety deposit vaulta to New York,, Brooklyn and Albany. Al-bany. Stocks and bonds worth thousands of dollars were tucked away In old china. In an ancient' mat trees. In holes In ifoe walls and under the floor. Bund lea of letters which had never been opened contained con-tained checks for dividends which the old woman had never collected. |