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Show ZELDA SELBY IN WILL Said to Be Granddaughter of Baldwin's Lifelong Friend, Sergeant Sharpe Los Angeles. March 5 Mlich In- teres t is manifested here in the statement state-ment that Mrs. Zelda Selby. the daughter daugh-ter of "Lucky" Baldwin, and now the wife of an Oakland confectioner, may proc to be a grand daughter of Abraham Abra-ham Sharpe, the former sergeant of the San Francisco police department and life-Jong friend of Baldwin. This report has been rumored since tho filing of 'the will, of the famous plunger plun-ger when he named Mrs. Selby as ono of the beneficiaries of his $23,000,000 estate. It was not known here that Baldwin had a daughter by Uial name until tho will was probated. Sergeant Sharpe came to Los Angeles An-geles several days prior to Baldwin's death and remained at his bedside until un-til his demise. It was published at the tlmo that his presence at the. millionaire's million-aire's bedside was the result of a pledge made between Sharpe and Baldwin many years ago that soever so-ever reached his bedside first, the other oth-er would come to his. No hint of any other connection between be-tween tho two families was made. Baldwin and Sharpe were fast friends in Virginia City, where the plunger made many millions, and th friendship friend-ship nag continued later in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Oakland, March 5. While refusing to make a direct affirmation of the report re-port that Mrs. Selby. wife of D. T. Selby, Sel-by, a candy manufacturer of Oakland, Oak-land, was his granddaughter, Former Police Sergeant Sharpe of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, admits that a granddaughter of his hal married a certain resident of Oakland bv that name. |