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Show HEIRS DIVIDE FORTUNE OF . MAN MISSING 69 YEARS Canadian Disappeared 83 year. Aflo and Hcs En Heard From Only Once Since. . Montreal.-In view of the fact thnt John l,ughes. disappeared from "d home here S3 years ago afte? the death of his mother, and has not been heard of during the last 09 years an Property in .which he has an interes will be divided between a nephew James Hughes, and his Ave chlldre according to a ruling of Jus ice Jo-seph Jo-seph Archambault, ' 'In a petition before the court it was said that John Hughes disappeared In and was not heard of until the year 1S61, when a letter was received from him by a friend In Montreal. At that time he was unmarried and liv tng In New York. The letter, which proved to be the only Information ever received by the branch of the family here regarding the whereabouts of Hughes, came into the possession of the nephew, James Hughes, 20 years later, in 1881. Eighteen years later, in October, 1S99, the letter was lost in a fire. When "the letter was written the writer was twenty-five years old. As far as can be learned through an extensive ex-tensive search, no trace has been found of Hughes. ,The nephew and his family believe they are the sole heirs of the missing man and they asked the court to place them In possession pos-session of any property belong to him. The petition was granted. The petitioners are James Hughes, James Edward Hughes, Jr., Michael Arthur. Hughes, Miss Edith Hughes, Mrs. John Paul Ferland and Mrs. Jerome Je-rome Joseph Poirier. , |