| Show I DEAD MENS GOLD Mow Clues to Ioney May fay MayBe fayBe Be Found h by Any In nil all the unclaimed fun funds In British could be gathered together time the sum would be a mass of oC wealth greater perhaps than an any other In Inthe Ini the world i Many clues to fortunes awaiting owners are arc more or less easily Ible A class of oC peculiar Interest to the descendants or of people who have settled In Britain overseas as and then trot ot out ot of touch with ith those at home ar are the lists published b by colonial gov governments go Thc These are arc usually printed In Inthe Intine tine the official Gazettes only though In Inome some ome cases they are Issued In separate ii i form also Is a glimpse ot of the tho a associated with of oC them once Included the name of oC a man who was transported to Van Land Lant turned over a new leaf leaC and died Wealthy and respectable leaving a huge fortune which Wilhelm was successfully claimed b by some poor POOl people In his native natle Ii l lage gc Time Tho lists for tor an any colony can as asa 0 a rule be consulted at the erol ort office ce In London WHEN HlEN THE CROWN DISGORGES Similar to that relating to the colon colonies S published b by the limo In India dia office as regards who w ho have died In country countr Our own government pUblishes yearly two lists of oC people who have died Intes Intestate Intestate tate and without known for England and time the other for tor Scotland Till 1881 the estates of oC such persons r A AL lc lcy L S y 5 5 HENRY S GRAVES New head ot of the forestry divisIon Mr Graves was formerly director of the Yale forestry school and for two years served under Pinchot whom ham h he succeeds wele recoverable O I by legitimate I heirs I any of J time FI but non the I statute ot of limitations applies to them however the crown has I hall haal to dl to the extent ot of I which wh ch oats recovered years after the death lIlath ot of the thc intestate An Important omission front rom the nn an I il lists Is 11 the tho value ulue of oC estates estate which I the crown clOn likes to keep dark It II is easy eaRY to however precisely ol ho how an ally given Intestate cut up for out on paying a at Somerset house yoU can see ec at what amount the estate was sworn Ot Of general interest than any luny of oC the foregoing pointers to lend dead mens gold gohl Is III the thO official or of unclaimed mid dormant funds In chancery Pub I every throe three years earl as aR a supple to the London Gazette It can be purchased cd for one or con Ca consulted free of oC choro at the law courts court and Is well orth looking ut even by br those Ihme who have no expectations There Thero arc me several other othel official lists or of unclaimed funds Cund notably those of oC soldiery balances and unclaimed JOV gov Ill t tock stock and dt r respectively by h which information tion II it given about the tho derelict wealth I which I metro ecru e tram front the arm army hs th the Loudon Ga Gazette elle In hl which are arc pub published periodically lists of oC soldiers un claimed balances A di nit an insuperable recovering 1 amounts some of oC which are con comm I Is due to time the fact that hers bere of them rhem stand in assumed names Formerly It was wal a common practice c far men to give false names on ment KEEP ABREAST OF THE THI TIMES rUlES The rhe lists of oC uncial unclaimed met government stock and dividends are now nil all old oh none nono having b been en published since hut but tho they ar are by no means worthless In the tho list are the tho ot of moro more than OOOO stockholders ers who altogether wane to or of monc money which In some eases had been accumulating since the eighteenth century Finally thousands ot of clues to tom 01 I tunes are to ho 00 found In the tho last pi ce where the uninitiated would think of oC bolting for tor index to The Times The Tho Index which now jol goes back for tor nearl nearly a century anti and can be consulted at any good reference library contains under the heading kin references to advertisements I men to legacies chancery suits In estates unclaimed dividends bank deposits etc As n a guide to In InQuiries I quince for tor ill The Index Is s the most valuable work extant The These o sources of oC authentic I tion should he be turned to b by those th who believe tho they may be entitled to 10 mon money The unlike unlikely often orten happens |
