FURTHER ACTION PLANNED
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—Reuter,
Clairaants To Vast Fortune Hold Meeting
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Received Monday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, March 13. Two hundred claimants- to the "Edwards mhlions," the fabulous Anglo-American fortune said to amount to • £40,000,000 in Britain alone, crowded the miners' hall at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, during the weekend fo/plan further action to establish their rights. They have to prove that they are descendants of William-- Edwards, an eighteenth century stone mason who emigrated to the United States. In all, the fortune is stated to be worth £266,000,000. The American part of the fortune is said to have accrued for more than a cencury from the estate "on which( New York is now buiit." The meeting was told that new documents had been discovered in pursuit of the American elaim, proving that the Edwards family's title to the money was held by the law authorities and to the land extending for 27 miles from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil. The meeting disjussed High Court action to prove hVifnr (ilnims
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 March 1949, Page 5
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