| Show FORTUNE JOR fOR WAITER R Estate of Wife He Eloped With Wit h Awarded After Long Litigation Philadelphia Pa 3 hi In on one e er eh day and his birthday at that Joseph Josep JosephI h I C. C Cooke a poor JOor struggling struggling- waite waiter r I became tho time owner for COl life of property y yielding an income of more than 6 6 a year ear The decree giving Iving him mi min I this snug fortune was vas handed down downin loW loWin mie n in tho the State Slate Supreme court and amid Coolie Cook e learned time the news just as he was makIng making mak mak- ing lug preparations to leave the cit city y despairing of ever winning vinnIng his lila suit sui t Tho fhe case which has been in litigation a lion tion for Cor twelve years gives give Cooke Coole ati a half interest in tho time estate estale of oC ti Doron boron who died lied in 18 IO leaving erty In JI Bristol Pa Parn valued at jot Cookes Cooke's claim to this estate date lates t ta ta to toa o a romance which culminated Juno 2 0 O. O 1893 when he lie then a walter waiter at tin the e Continental hotel hold married Catherine lle o II H. j Doron who with her brother brothel Will Vii William l- l Ian iam 13 g. Doron inherited all their fathers father's fathers father's fath fath- m- m ers er's estate Met Mel lieu Her ai sis a Walter Cooke Coolie comes of a a. good family I h III um he lie was wayward way way- England but as liS a hoy ward waid leaving leaving- home when whelm 1 11 1 years ol olto ok old d to shift for Cor himself lIe Ho worked as us n a waiter In iii the time homes of some ome of Eng England's lands land's nobility until he be was was' 19 ID years year old when he lie came to America herlie Here her e he lie found Cound employment In hotels lI lie e was In the time Continental hotel for fOI yeas years S and In n this capa capacity he hc mot Catherine e Doron who imo fell rell in lovo love and ancl married ti him against her brothers brother's will They were vere married In i Pa 11 Cooke and his went to England Eng land and nUll tho the continent and lived Jived i io happily together After their tri trip o abroad they established a home i in um Philadelphia But Cookes Cooke's happiness was soon over Fourteen months af after af- af tel ter his lila wedding ho awoke olm one onn ing ng to timid find his wife dead in his arms s. s Heart disease had hall killed her A few fe w months later he lie began suit sulL for 01 possession posses posses- ilon slon of his estate Will ViiI Ibid Hold 10 lib Ills Job Joh Cooke was seen Scull In the of hi his s attorneys Ruby Huby R. R Vale fale and nd ti tid W. W r just after he ho had lund received receIve d the tho news of his good fortune Asked Aske d what he was going oln to do with hi his s large Income he ho said lId se th the 1 am nun going to go So and put on oh e best clothes I have havo and havo have havea a n. good goo d dinner tonight anti and for tor a while I 1 will Vii ie i continue to hold down my may Job jot Themis Them Ihor e is Just one thing that thal 1 have determined ed cd to do 10 and that is to Ubo a u large larg e et Income to erect ee t years year's part of or m my may first st over tI th li e a magnificent grave Slave of or my wife wiCe In BrIstol I 1 love loved d item hOlt for herself and not for hc her pion- pion I 1 want t to o erty and sho she loved me erect cleet a suitable monument to 0 he her r mentor memory |
