Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — HEIRS TO FORTUNE. [ARTICLE]

HEIRS TO FORTUNE.

A Great India Estate Going to San Francisco Parties. ' A San Francisco dispatch states that TnrrYwholesale butchers nf that city -havgbeen thrown into great excitement by news that they had fallen heirs to a great estate in India. Kaufman Wertheimer received a letter from his sister in Baden, Germany, informing him that he and his immediate tWatives were heirs to $30,000,000. Mr. Wertheimer was seen and confirmed the story, which at first sight looked like a canard. He said: “Here is a letter whjch I have received from Germany from a cousin of mine. It states that the German Embassador in England has succeeded in inducing the British India Government tr forego its claim to the estate of Leopold Mayer, who died intestate in

'* .... India twenty-five years ago, and whose property was thereby escheated to the Crown. The property, as the letter states, is valued at 30,000,000, but whether it is pounds, sterlings, dollars, thalers, marks or rupees, lam ignorant The claim to this money has been known for a number of yeais, and several members of my family have been pushing it and endeav- | oring to get the German Government to j move in the matter. Leopold Mayer was 1 a'great uncle of mine on my brother’s | side. He went to India years ago, and I remember as a little boy hearing my I mother speaking of him. The persons who are entitled to shares in the estates are my two brothers, Michael and Joe, my sisters, Mrs. F. Uri, Mrs. J. Kern, of Sacramento, and Mrs. E. Solomon, of Baden, Germany, and an aged aunt also residing in Germany. The letter requests me to forward certain documents to Germany relating to the prosecution of the I claim, and I shall send them by mail early : next week.” Mr- Wertheimer showed tho repdWfer the letter and some documents that proved conclusively the genuineness of the -family claim to the Indian for- ; tune. Wertheimer is well off, but he is : naturally-anxious to know the value in ! American dollars of the inherited millions.