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Show Found a Long-Lost Deed An unrecorded deed was found In an obscuro corner of an old desk In Idwrrnce, Kan , not long ago, lilch Insured to tho Unheralt) of Kanrns a valuable legacy, sa)a the Knnsaa City Star. Aflir the death of the late (lor. Charles lloblnion It as found that ho had followed up a number of valuable gifts mado to the unherslty during his lifetime by bequeathing to tho university uni-versity his tatuablo farm a fow miles north of iJixrence Ills widow was to nae tho larm during her Ufa and then It as to go to tho atato university. uni-versity. A few months ago K S Steele, an abstractor In I.arince, ae commissioned commis-sioned to make au abstract of tho farm. He found tho title vested In a sister of Oov. Itoblnson by virtue of a deed more than twenty Ave years ago. Tho eseculors could not And any deed or tithsr Instrument transferring tho property to Oov. Hoblnson. Cor a time, It seemed as It the legscy would bo lost. Tho woman In whom tho tltlo was vested hsd been dead for sovoral )esrs Tho widow of the dt ad gunrnor was sure that her husband hus-band had held tho tltlo of tho farm at the time of hla death. A thorough starch was made. Unally 11 occurred to ono of tho executors to compile a list of alt of the agtnta (lov Itoblnson had cm-ployed cm-ployed during his lifetime All ot these snnts that could bo found wcro seen and each of them searched everywhere for tho deed. Finally ono of them recalled sn old desk that ho had sold to n stenndhand dealer a few jeara before Tho desk was traced to a fsrmhouso almost adjoining adjoin-ing the Itoblnson farm The desk was searched, but the missing document was not discovered Tho farmer who owned the desk as not satisfied with the atarch made by the lawyers who hsd visited him for Ihst purpose, lis took the desk apart and behind a broken panel found tho missing deed. The document was recorded the next day and tho widow of the late Oov. Itoblnson Is now sure of her home during her lifetime and the University Uni-versity of Kansas Is again eecuro In Its anticipation ot a valuable legacy. |