THE ANGELL ESTATES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5290, 22 June 1928, Page 4

THE ANGELL ESTATES.

FIGHT FOR £60,000,900. MOVES BY RIVAL CLAIMANTS. Further dramatic moves are planned to take place very shortly in a fight that is being waged for possession of the vast Angell estates in South London, which are estimated to be worth £60,000,000. Public attention was attracted to the matter a few weeks ago by a spectacular step on the part of Mr William Adrian Allery, aged 83, who is conspicuous among the numerous people who assert that, they have a right -to some part of the property. Mr Allery, it will be recalled, seized a house on the Lambeth Wyke estate, for whom the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are trustees, and ipvited tenants to Pay him their rents. He withdrew after legal action had been taken against him in the Courts. Mr Allery now contemplates returning to the attack. “A £lO,OOO syndicate, to be called ‘The Angell Estates, Limited,’ is to be formed to finance me in the fight for the estates and the millions," declared Mr Allery. “Two peers and a number of influential and distinguished people have expressed their willingness to give me financial assistance. For that £16,000 the syndicate will, receive twelve and a half million pounds if I win. I have just obtained more valuable information in. substantiation of my claim, a,nd legal proceedings will soon begin. Within nine months I, shall be in possession of the estates and the fortune.” While these plans of Mr Allery’s have been maturing another branch of the Angell family, which has something like -100 members in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and America, has been, displaying activity. Its spokesman, Mr Francis Wilfred Angell, 24, railway signalman, of Sheffield, has been busy ill London investigating the affairs of the estates and examining at Somerset House 30 wills and administratons relating to tlie property. During two dramatic meetings with Mr Allery he insisted that he had as much dight to the fortune as his elderly rival, and that he intended going on with his claim. “When. I get back to Sheffield,’* Mr Angell declared, “I am going to call a Conference of all the Angells and get them to pool funds to fight our case. They will be asked to nominate th They will be asked to nominate the heir.at.-law, and that man will be me.”.