£25,000,000 Will MISSING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 249, 20 November 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

£25,000,000 Will MISSING.

IS IT AN ECCENTRIC MAN'S JOKE?

What was probably only one of tho numerous eccentricities of Mr. Francis A. Ogden, tho inuiti-millionatre recluse of Chicago, who died recently, is causing his relatives considerable trouble, tor they cannot find a will, or deeds ot hi 3 L-nornious property. Besides property of great value in Chicago, he owned rich lauds in Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia, Washington and several other States, and a moderate estimate' of the value ol his estate is tC'2't, IRH),000.

Mr. Ogden lived for many years in an hotel at Madison, Wisconsin, an.l tho walls of his room were covered with advertising chi'onios. clipping trom newspapers, and calendars. He had a selfprescribed schedule of abstemiousness, only allowing hiniseli Is. Hid. per day tor food. As lie owned the hotel in which ho lived lie could do as he liked. lieiorei leaving about a year ago to: Texas, where lie died, he had a tall bronzo shaft erected in the Cemetery, at the tout of which he intended to bo buried. tto far the search by relatives for his papers has disclosed no instructions, and no schedule of his properly. His anxious relative's are beginning to think that the old multi-millionaire had destroyed all his papers, with the intension of playing a posthumous juke upon thoin. He was fond of saying : "My brothers and sisters invested in families of ehildreti. but I have invested in farms and real estate."