Show IMAGINARY ESTATES IN EUROPE r Inquiries are nr 11 r made mado at Rt atthe F W the department of at state slate by clil CIlI I lens rens of at this country In regard to estates estate In Europe to which they ire are led lell to believe they have legal claim as heirs h In many ninny cases clites this belief bellet arles arises trim statements widely adver advertised tiled laed by designing persons peron describing supposed estates and soliciting buttons In money mOM from tram persona periana bearing ho tho name by which the Imaginary en es tales ales known Notwithstanding ho the fact that thaI all nil these eases cases have halve been tully ully Inquired Into Inlo by the diplomatic of at the United States and the results of or their Investigations widely wl pUblished front from time line to time lime the tho position continues to be practised at In ln Mr Air David 1 avld J Hill United States mint min ister ster at III The he Hague calls attentions attention to toong ong ont of or there theme alleged estates In Holland known as II the Metzger It estate eft tate This estate ha hn worked by for fora a II period of ot more marc than thon 30 years and tho the fact tact that their efforts are renewed renew ell periodically indicates Indicate In that the th business Is s found to 10 be profitable Minister Hill VIII writes that the tho number of ot lona received from various parts parta of or line tho United States at The Hague HUlIo have havo mul multiplied within the past Post tow fow OW month months and therefore the thc matter nuttier Is le again brought to the tho attention of at the department In speaking of at this thin trading t upon the cred crall credulity unity of or unsuspecting persons Mr air Ir Hill lilli says rays II In this connection permit me ale to 10 refer reter to 10 my predecessor Mr Ir Newels dispatch dis Ills dispatch patch and to 10 other earlier correspond correspondence ence on on the subject contained In a n pamphlet entitled Estates In Rolland Holland sued hued by b tho the department ot of state stale and of oC widen which a n number of ot copies caples were wo e fur furnished to the legation In 1 this let leI the tho Netherlands law of ot 1852 provid providing I log ing for the establishment of ot a n commis commission slon sion to settle etUe claims against estates e of ot persons an liS well nj ns against the government l is 18 described de and the meth method od Olt of ot procedure explained This Ihl law provides for Cor the final disposal of ot nil all estates that were In the hands bunds of time the I commission beginning with the date of ot Its It establishment within five 11 ve years and some mont months month after n er 1852 when w h en the e law went Into effect From this It II Is le evi evl evident evIdent dent that all such estates even een It If they had hod h Jl ever existed would now under the present law have hn Irrevocably to the state stats It may ma not however h he 10 amiss amis to add that so far tar Investigation ha hl hat shown that these estates never did exist except In Imagination |