HEIR TO £130,000.

Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 323, 23 January 1930, Page 2

HEIR TO £130,000.

CLAIM' FOR ADOPTED SON. Claims are being made on behalf of a 15-year-old boy working in a Sheffield steelworks that he is the missing heir to the fortune of £130,000 left by William Emery, a Fleinington (New Jersey) merchant, says the Manchester Guardian. The boy is Leonard Charles ■ Gray Reed, the adopted son of Charles Ernest Reed, an unemployed man living in Weedon Street, Sheffield. Mr Reed believe that Leonard was given away by Mr Emery r s daughter to concetfl. her marriage to a man of whom her parents disapproved. , , The baby, it is stated, was -born in Washington and was handed v . to a woman with the request that she should find a home for him and never let his , identity become known. If the miss-

ing child is not found the fortune will go to his cousin, Mr Vivian Cornelius, who is now living in England. Mr Reed said that he adopted Leonard in August, 1914. He first answered an advertisement in a local newspaper which gave a box office address. A woman, who gave an address at Harpurhey, Manchester, brought the baby over and paid Reed £lO. She Wid r,he child's name was Leonard Charles Gray and his parents held a high position and were well-known in the United States The mother did not want to sed the child again,' said the woman, and Reed was given a document renouncing rights in the child and signed "Alice Gray." The clothes which the baby wore were of high quality, and its bottle bore the mark, "Washington, U.S.A." The date of birth was stated to be May 20, 1914.