Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — STORK LEFT $500,000 BABY [ARTICLE]

STORK LEFT $500,000 BABY

Birth of Child Validates Bequest of Half-Million to the Infant’s Parents. Scranton, Pa. —When the stork dropped into town on his usual rounds it called at the home of Charles R. Connell, nephew of former Congressman William Connell, and now Scranton is boasting of a “half-million dollar baby,” while the boy’s mother is proudly displaying its charms to her friends and at the same time showing a SIO,OOO diamond sunburst, the gift of the proud fathers Under the will of the baby’s grandfather it was provided that if its father died without issue the estate was to go to the children of the former congressman, and inasmuch as Mr. and Mrs. Connell had been married eight years without having their union blessed by children, it began to look very much as if the behest of the will would stand. The arrival of the baby, however, sets aside this proviso of the will and the $500,000 will now remain in the other branch of the family, no provision having been made by the decedent for its conversion in the event of the child’s not living.