HEIR TO £20,000

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 1 September 1914, Page 9

HEIR TO £20,000

REFUSAL TO MARRY A FATHER'S CHOICE. A "real-life" romance lies behind the i following paragraph, published in "The Daily Mail" not long ago:—"Mr. Wil-, liam Rouse, Whittingham, of Guestling Hill, near Hastings, left nearly all his estate of £46,278 in equal shares to his daughter, Rosa' Mabel Joyce* and. his son, Reginald William Rouse Upjohn, but directed that if his trustees receive no claim from his son nor information as to his existence within seven years they are that he died in tho testator's lifetime." ' '

'As a result of the publicity given by "The Daily Mail" and of subs'eg.uent inquiries, the missing heir was discovered in London in tho person of Mr. Sidney W. Upjohn, a taxi-cab driver living, on the top floor of a Soho lodging-house. He is a pleasant-spoken young man, of medium height, twenty-eight years of age. Ho states that he left homo when eighteen sooner than marry the wealthy girl his father wanted him to. Since then he has been a picture palace attendant, a film actor, and an omnibus driver. With his fortune Mr. Upjohn proposes to set up in business as a motor char-a-bancs proprietor.