PHANTOM FORTUNE
Unknown Australian Estate hundreds of claimants , The latest claimant to the "Horvath millions" is Franz Otto Nungard, who couriuded a letter to a Sydney solicitor tbi' other day with "Heil Hitlerl" Nungard estimates the estate as 10,000,000' — whether ppunds steriing of marks is not discloserl . The man is the latest to join an army oi ciaimants on the estate of Caspar, of Kaspar, or Stephen Horvath, who wds reputed to have died in Australia abuut 1880, leaving between £5,000 000 and £10,000,000. ' The story recounted in numerous letters of ciaimants is that Horvath . left - his fortune in trust for the City of Sydney, should no heirs prove their claims before 1945. There are hundreds of "heirs" ready to prove their claims long before that date. But the Australian authorities 'have been unable to frad any trace of Horvatb or bis millions. It is believed tbat the whole story is a European hoax. Ciaimants state that they are applying' as the result of stories oircuJated in Czechoslavakiatt and Hungarian newspapers Claims have been received from both these eountries and from ltaly, Germany. Rumania and Anierica. One correspondent iu Germany, writing on behaJl of bis uiaid, Mary Horvath, asked whether tbe story was a hoax. He pointed out that in Europe the namo Horvath was very common, and "hundreds and hundreds of Horraths are interested " Berman ciaimants say that Horvath was a former lieutenant in the Pomeranian Uhlans. Hungarians elairo that. he was a lieutenant-colonel.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 5
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