RESCUER RECEIVES £72 500
HEROIC ACT RHWAISDED AFTER 34 YEARS. New York, March 20. Peter Audersen, a farm labourer, of White Bluffs, Washington, has inherited a fortune amounting to .£72,500 under most romantic circumstances.
Andersen, who \nrs too poor to buy wall-paper, had covered the walls of his cottage with newspapers. Recently ho noticed an advert iscine-nt- in one of these paper* asking for information of his whereabouts. I]c replied to the advntisemenl, and an establishing his identity lie wan informed thai, lie was heir U> the sum nanied. He received a. draft, of I'I.OOO to enable him to come to New York to collect the balance. Andedrsen loft- Denmark in 1873 a hoard the ship W. .J. Gottrv, which was wrecked ofi" "Newfoundland. lie was a powerful swimmer, and, seizing Peter Kuudsen. a drowning passenger, kept' • him afloat until they were able to crawl | on some wreckage which floated them both ashore. After much privation both reached New York, where they separated. T\nuds«n made an immense fortune in [the glove business in New Jersey, and j bequeathed it to hi H rescuer.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 124, 16 May 1908, Page 4
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183RESCUER RECEIVES £72 500 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 124, 16 May 1908, Page 4
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