CLAIMANTS FOR A FORTUNE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1759, 6 February 1888, Page 3

CLAIMANTS FOR A FORTUNE

A olulm has ja«t been made on tho Treasury of the .-vtate of New York £o^. a fortune of £140,030, which has been lying there tot nearly twenty years, by the children of Dr Kenealy, the well known English barrister who was disbarred for his oourse m tbe case of tbe Tichborne claimant. Tbe romantic Btory of the claim (says the " Argio- American Times") m brief is :— ln XalO a great uncle of the uresumptive heira, a C ilone! ot tha 68ih English Regiment, was ordered toOanndti, and brought ' ver wlih him two mothurleuß boys Edward and William Upon returning subaf qaenlly he left the buys m ohurge of a b'reuoh Human Oatholio Pritot at Ambereberg, Ontario. Toe boys, it seems grew trod of eohool life, and were uever afterwaidi heard of by the old Colonel, m epire of every means having been used to trace them. A few years later tho Colonel died m England. TSdward, the elder brother, went to Michigan where all trace was loat oi | him. William, from whom tbe fortune comes, went to Broiklyn, white be grew rioh &nd known as a miser, Iv 1876, ho died childless, leaving a fortune uf £60,000. He left most of his monsy to found an orphanage but the beqaest wjs sot aside No heir appeared, and the money w»a covered In time into the State Treatury. Tuere are five heirs to this fortune and four of them are la America. The eldest Is an editorial writer on the " No* York Herald." One son is praotlulng law In Manitoba, and the third son Is a reporter no tbe 'Philadelphia Press." One of th« daughters iq praotialag rcedio.ne m Lqudon, and one is a nurse m thu children's bospl-al, Nhw T »rk olty.