A MYSTERIOUS KEY.
HUNT FOR A FORTUNE. , The family of August Konrad :are searching for securities worth ,£40,000 which are missing, says a New York paper. Konrad, who was a miser, was originally a clergyman, became a florist, and then made a large fortune ■out of gas in Tarry town. Ten years ago he informed his children that they must work for their living, as he should need the ■money he had mads for his old age. .Although Konrad had very large means, his children were obliged to work as dressmakers. Konrad became insane in October last, and died suddenly in a hospital at Poughkeepsie. He tried to reveal the whereabouts of his wealth, but .his speech failed and he was incoherent. He had three keys in his possession —one for the house and another for a trunk, and the third, which is the key of a safe, is numbered 103. It is by means of this key that the +JS&m\\v hope to recover the fortune. All the safe deposist have been visited without success, and .the ta:nily are 1 now advertising the facts i;i the hope that some light will be t'irjwn on tha mystery.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19080815.2.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9167, 15 August 1908, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
196A MYSTERIOUS KEY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9167, 15 August 1908, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in