Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — HEIR TO A MILLION. [ARTICLE]

HEIR TO A MILLION.

A St, Louisan Entitled to a Portion of the Great Townley Estate. • rst. Louis telegram.] The Liverpool Weekly Post of recent date announces that by an act* of Parliament, passed August 4, the British Government has decided to pay over to all the legal heirs of the Lawrence Townley estate their proper portion of the money. This estate amounts to the enormous sum of $800,000,000 in money and 400,000 acres of land. The estate would have been divided thirty-four years ago, but, through the false claim of one Talmy, it was thrown into chancery, where it remained twenty-six years. The estate was inherited by four brothers of the Chase family, three of whom— William, Aquila, and Thomas —came to this country before the Revolutionary war. •The direct heirs of these three brothers in America number about 800. Many of them are supposed to reside in Missouri. One of those who have put in claimß is L. T. Austin, of No. 224 East Stein street, South St. Louis. He will be entitled to several million dollars when the estate is settled. Mr. Austin says that a number of the other heirs who have not put in their claims are supposed to be residents of St. Louis. Mr. Stein’s grandmother prosecuted the claim in 1846, but died at the advanced age of 100 years while it was still in litigation. Mr. Austin is now working on the Transfer Railway in South St. Louis.