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Show BELIEVES HERSELF HEIR TO f IlLLI0:iS Descendant of John Nicholas Nicho-las Emerich, John Jacob Astor't Partner. , KANSAS CITTf, Uo.f May fT. Be; lieving herself to ba oaa of 450 hairs to an 180,000,000 estate. Miss Hattie X. Johnson of Walnut, Kaa., haa a second time solicited the aid of tha Kansas City free legsl aid bureau of tha board of public welfare to assist her ia obtaining ob-taining her ahare of the fortune. Miss Johnsoa is the daughter of Mrs. Martha Emerich 'Johnson, wife of a retired re-tired Baptiat minister. The mother ia 64 years old and haa produced genealogical genealo-gical and other legal doeumente . to prove that she is a great graadnieee of John Nicholas Emerich, who died ia ism Miss Johnson declares the estate was loft in ebsrge of Jobs Jacob Astor, Emerich 'e partner in the fur business. Emerich left hie eatste. thea valued at about a million dollars., in trust for seventy five years, naming Astor as trustee. Miss Jonnsoo says that when the senior Astor died the estate passed into the hsnds of tea of his descend ants, who atill hold possessioa of tbs property. She save she hss beea ia-fnrmetl ia-fnrmetl that it ia low worth about tso.oou.ooo. She save she doaa not fcaow the names of tha trustees nor just what property the estate includes, baa has beea told, she says.' that it lasludee property in New York City between, Bertor street snd Printing House stiusre, including the ground of the Astor house and St. Paul 'a cathedral, and also property in Germaa towa, which is now a part uf Philadelphia. |