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Show RECLUSZ WA3 RICH, LIVING IN SEEMING POVERTY, WOMAN LEFT $3O.C0O. I London Police Are Seeking (n America Amer-ica the Heirs of Miser of Peculiar I Tastes Who Has Just I Passed Away. , Thirty thousand dollais' worth of personal property awaits tlm .heirs of o' remarkable old woman recluse la has just died In Cblswlck, n London suburb, says the Kansas City iUnr. Her next-of-kin aro believed by tlio police po-lice to be living in different parti of tho United Stntes ono of them, A nicco, having been Inst heard of in California and advertisements addressed ad-dressed to them by tiame will shoitly bo published hi Ameilca. When they come here they will find an assortment of treasures, for Mrs. Jane Chutton, the dead woman, appears ap-pears to havo had peculiar tastes. Although Al-though successfully po3lng as tho poorest of tlio poor, living In a dilapidated dilapi-dated old house, with a dog for her solo companion, her death revealed the fact that she had stowed away In a back room $S,000 In bank notes, $1,500 In government bonds, diamond rings, brooches, bracelets and other Jewelry worth about $15,000 and n gieat storo of valuable silks, rare Indian and Paisley shawls. Tho hovel In which sho was found dead had been her homo for many years. A neighbor brought her rood and old friends vlsltpd her now and then., A lovo lomauco In tho background back-ground may havo had something to do with her solitary life. In 1851 alio married mar-ried John Chutton, n butler who had passed himself oft as a man of means aud whom she found "too Inquisitive about her affairs." This was the only reason she over cavo for leaving him nt tho church door the day of their marriage and for never seeing him ngaln. Sho seldom left her house and her visitors , were few and far between. be-tween. For soveral days her neighbor, ono Elizabeth Camp, had knocked on her door and was unable to get any reply. re-ply. So she summoned tho police, who forced nn entrance. They found Mrs. hutton lying dead on tho bed. A boarch of tho house was mndo. In ono room wero hundreds of ynrds of silk worth $2.60 a yard, rare shawls and wraps. Thero were boxes full of beautiful beau-tiful old-fashioned clotlilnir. and nuinv costly ornaments lay scattered In the dirt. Packed away In nn old trunk was a stocking containing the $8,000 In bank notes nnd $4,600 lh go eminent bonds. A tin box revealed u heap of diamond rlngB. bloodies, bracelets, gold watches and precious stones. The only food In the house was a small pleco of bread. The coroner said that he had once attended her, but had not .charged anything because be-cause he thought sho was a poor woman. Tho pollco have taken possession posses-sion of tho dilapidated houso and all Its precious contents, and they are waiting for tho American relatives to reveal their whereabouts. |