GUARDING HER GOLD
OLD MAID HOARDS | HER IMMENSE FORTUNE. EELATIVES MAKE CLAIMS. The amazing statement that the late Miss Ella V. von Wendel, the agjd ' millioflairess recluse of fashionable Fifth Avenue, watched alone over a fortune of £15,000,000 stored in eight safes in her gloomy old house has been made in court at New York. An executor and legatee of her will gave evidence that the safes contained every deed, abstract and title of the immense real estate holdings aceumulated by her family for generations. Some of them held overdue bond coupons dating back as far as 1840. Bank-books- in the safes accounted for £1,000,000 in cash on deposit in a Manhattan bank. A pair of scissors and a few books were the only articles under ten years old found in the house when the old millionairess died. Nearly 2000 alleged relatives of the Wendel family are claiming shares in the estate, many of them from Germany.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 294, 6 August 1932, Page 6
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