RELATIVES LAY CLAIM TO KINSMAN'S FORTUNE
V (Special Correspondent.)
Received Wednesday, / p.m. LONDQN, April 2, Two hundred and fifty distant relatives of Robert -Edwards, a Welshman who emigrated from Pontygwaith in the eighteenth eentury and went to_ United States, met this week. at Port-' albot, Glamoi'gan, to prerpaY& plans to cont,ost Edwfirds' £2Q0,Q0Q,0QQ will, Edwards is believed to kavq died intestate until workmen demolisfiing p building in Now York several years ago discovered a document pnrporiing. to be his will, It left all his property to. a brother and five sisters in Wales Edwards settled near the mobth of the Hudson , River and on the. land he bought with his savings, Manhatten Broadway and part of Wai] Street pow stand. • The relatives. s.et up a committee and established a fighting fund with which they propose to send a, representative to United States to lodge for mai claima to the fot'tnne.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1947, Page 5
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