INHERITANCE DENIED.
FORTUNE FROM DOMINION
MYTHICAL LEGACY OF £20,000
.LONDON, Jan. 5. The man who was reported to have inherited £20,000 from a.n Isaac Richard Seddon, in New Zealand, now denies that the money lias been left to him.
Alfred Seddon, aged 46, of Coventry, was recently proceeded against at Wigan by his wife for £1025 arrears on a maintenance or'der made in 1917. Mr W. 13. Vincent, for Mrs Seddon, said the arrears had been accumulating since 1918. Mrs Seddon, who had existed with the help of the Public Assistance Committee, recently heard that her husband had come into a fortune of £20,000. The legacy was left to a. man named William Alfred Roland Seddon, although Mrs Seddon had only known her husband as Alfred Seddon.
Seddon, in evidence, said he was living with a woman at Coventry, and had a child three and a-half years old. He was a painter,, earning £3 12s a week. He was not in a position to pay the claim of £IOOO.
Mr Vincent: ‘ls there any truth in this story of £20.000 ?—No. Seddon was ordered to pay £1 Is a week on the order and arrears. He has &iven no indication of the reason for his previous statements about the fortune.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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210INHERITANCE DENIED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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