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Show COHFIDEHGE GAME OF jl THIRTY YEARS AGO IS I REVIVED POLiGE SAY I pHHfl Letters Sent Out Declaring Re- j cipient is Heir to Vast Estate ij fl in New York CONTRIBUTION SOUGHT H "FOR LEGAL EXPENSE" , Site of Woolworth Building ! and Trinity Church Included 1 In Supposed'Property RED BANK, N. J., Jan. 24. ' H Three armed men held up four employes of the Sig- ' mund Eisner company on the factory grounds today and robbed them of $20,000, the company payroll. i NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Search for swindlers who arc trying to convince 1 fH thousands of persons throughout the country that they have inherited most of the land in New York's financial j district was begun today by the po- ! In a revival of a swindle which net-ted net-ted promoters nearly SI, 000,000 near-ly near-ly thirty years ago, letters haye been i circulated advising the recipients that they are heirs of -Anneko Jans, and that her estate consisting of the sites ; of the Woolworth building, Trinity church and most of Wall street is to LH be jclivklcd soon. A contribution for I legal' expenses is asked. Jewels and 1 money valued at millions belonging to ' the estate have just been discovered i H in a vault in this city, the letter say. IH As proof there are enclosed what ap- I ( jH pear to be newspaper clippings. I Anueke Jans was a real old. Knicker- IH bocker and she left all her property 1 .to Trinity church. Litigation over the estate ended years ago, but at least 500,000 persons have claimed to be her heirs since then, it is estimat- jH eel at the district attorney's office. 'H Residents of Ogden declare they r member this old swindle. They de- i dare that one person in nearly every i community received a letter in which j jH they were told they were heir .o great IH wealth and that a certain sum should JM be contributed toward developing the legal phases of the case. I Government officers ' urge that any ' person receiving one of the letters of ( I the present swindlers notify the prop-. prop-. er authorities. oo |