THE WEBBER MILLIONS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 10

THE WEBBER MILLIONS.

NEW ZEALAND CLAIMANT.

(TROU OUE, OWN COEEESPOSTIENT.)

LONDON, September 18

A number of West Hiding i>eop]e are said to be directly interested in the developments which are expected to take place in connexion with three fortunes: the Fazackerly millions, the Webber millions (stated to amount to £36,000,000), and Joseph Nelson's estate in Missouri.

In connexion with the Webber fortune a Bradford family is &aid to be entitled to a share. It is stated that a man named William Webber uent to America 240 years ago and made a lucky speculation. He discovered a gold mine, and with the money made from it he bought a large estate on Manhattan Island, which now forms New York proper. In 1914 the British Government, so it is stated, discussed tho distribution of the estate to-its claimants, but the war intervened. Webber's daughter was his sole heir, but her marriage against the wishes of her father enraged him, and he altered his will so that no money would come to his daughter or other relations until the seventh generation. The money is in tlie hands of the English Oov eminent; £18,000,000 is in .America, and a similar amount in Holland.

Tlie claimants, who total about 70, include: —Mrs James Barnes (formerly Miss Jessie Webber), 3 Pagett square, Clayton Heights. Bn./lford; Mrs Arthur Pugh. 16 Morley street, Bradford; Mrs William Hidgson, New Zealand ; Mr Francis Edmund Webber, 078 Wakefield road, Bradford; Mr Alfred Webber, Wakefield road. Bradford; Mr T. H. Sealy Webber, York road,"E/>therliaia; and Mr F. G. Webber, 10 Tinton street, Canton, Cardiff. Investigations are in legal hands.