RESCUER RECEIVES £72,500,

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9160, 1 June 1908, Page 6

RESCUER RECEIVES £72,500,

New York, March 36, Peter Anderson, a farm labourer of White Bluffs, Washington, has'inherited a fortune amounting to £73,500 under most romantic circumstances.

Anderson, who was too poet ic buy wall-paper, had covered the walls of hie cottage with newspapers. Recently he noticed an advertisement in one of those papers' asking for information of his whereabouts. He replied to the advertisement, and on establishing his* identity he was informed . that he was heir to the sum named. He received a draft of £IOOO to enable him to come to New York to collect the balance. Anderson left Denmark in 1678 aboard the ship W. J. Gotfery, which was wrecked oflfNewfouadland. He was a powerful swimmer, and, seising Peter Knudsen, a drowning passenger. kept him afloat until they were able to crawl on some wreckage which floated them both ashore. After much privation both reaehet New York, where they separated,.; Knudsenmade an immense fortune in the glove business in New Jersey, and bequeathed it to his resucer.