TWENTY MILLIONS.
FORTUNE IN CHANCERY. WELLINGTONIAN'S CLAIM. BUSSING DOCUMENTS FOUND. (By Telegraph .—Press Association'.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A claim to a fortune of £20,000,000 has been made by Mr. H. Spears, who has been in business in Wellington for the past 30 years. The fortune once belonged to an English family named Cox. In addition to the capital sum involved it is believed that the claim, if successful, will entitle Mr. Spears to large properties in the British Isles, including two castles. This huge sum of money has been accumulating in Chancery for many years owing to the disappearance of two brothers. After spending their youth in England they went to Australia and were never heard of again. The next heir to the fortune was unable to find sufficient proof to substantiate his claim.
About 40 years ago the fortune was contested in England by interested parties. Owing, however, to the absence of certain important documents they were unsuccessful. These documents have since been discovered in Australia and other places. Mr. Spears bases his claim on the fact that his mother was a Miss Elizabeth Cox. Her father, Colonel Cox, served in the Indian Mutiny, iind would have been found to be in the direct line of descent if sufficient proof could have been brought forward concerning the matter. Although Mr. Spears believes that a Rev. Thomas Cox. as well as his mother, came to New Zealand in the early days, he thinks there are not many descendants of this Cox family in tie Dominion to-day, and that there arc bnly a few in England. In the meantime the matter has been placed in the hands of a solicitor in Sydney.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 13
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280TWENTY MILLIONS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 13
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