FORTUNE OF £IOOOOO.
COLLIER'S WIFE AND HER RICH AMERICAN UNCLE.
Ill's. Mary Ami Clifford, the wife of poor colliery sinker at Aberavou, lias received information that ...lie is entitled to share with a sister and two brolhci a fortune ol" .CIOO.OOO left by their uncle, Mr. James I'ryor, who in America.
Mro. Clifford, who is the mother of six sons, informed a London Expr-ss representative that she had known (hat her father's brother James, who had emigrated to America many years ago, had acquired a large fortune, but she. had heard nothing of him for several \y™ K -.. . . .
The information that she was heiress to a portion of the fortune came to her through Messrs. A. W. Hilling & Sons, solicitors, of Harrogate. "Mr. Hilling came to me on Thnrsdav night," she continued, "lie asked me several questions about, my family, and 1 signed several papers for him. W" went to Maesleg yesterday together,
and he invited me or one of the famih 1.0 go to America with him on Monday, lb' i', going over there himself to j#)'ik-" the final arrangements.
" I don't think the fortune will ni.ik" much of a chnn.'e in us. but 1 fee'. 1 bank fill for the „ake of my boys. II will sel th:'in lip in life, and they are all good lads. Many of tlio neighbours
don't believe th,, story, but t expect I lie iir«t instalment some time rthis
week. I do not propose leaving Aberavou at present."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 138, 2 June 1908, Page 4
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246FORTUNE OF £100000. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 138, 2 June 1908, Page 4
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