250 HEIRS.
CLAIMANTS TO i!S,000,000 FORTUNE. The 250 heirs of a man called Johann Kilp, who was bom in 1719, met together at ICelkhelm, in the Taunus, recently under curious circumstances., Ihcir ancestor died in Holland, leaving a huge fortune to bo divided amongst his heirs a hundred years after his death. He directed that until that period had expired the interest'on the capital should be devoted to a Dutch chanty. The capital now amounts to the nugo sum of .£8,000,000, and the claimants elected at this meeting-a committee to take steps to secure the property It is curious that although m 1860 a hundred years had passed since tho death of Johann Kilp, nobody had been at tho pains to investigate the matter.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 11
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124250 HEIRS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 11
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