- EDINBURG WOMAN INHERITS LEGACY
Mrs. Carhart Winders Receives Word of Fortune Left By Friend
Expectancy is rife in the country home of the Carharts, out on the Edinburg Road.
In fact there is the greatest excitement in the family since the daughter of the house is said to be an heiress, and the whole neighborhood is promptly paying its respects.
And it is no mean furtune, either--the fortune that is rumored--for it souars into the neighborhood of sixty thousand pounds. Yes, the pounds tell that it is English, but the story isn't at all like the old ones.
In fact, Mrs. Hattie Bell Carhart WInders--for Miss Carhart, to whome the money was left, was married and is a widow now--is assured of the genuineness of the legacy and only awaits an answer to a cablegram declaring her identity. This message went forward yesterday from the Trenton law office of Couselor Henry D. Lanning.
The latter admitted today that he had been commissioned to inquire into the rather alluring report and that, at the suggestion of the family, he had hastened communication, in the hope of quickly clearing up the mystery. That the fortune is most mysterious, tough entirely and absolutely authentic, and not in any manner concerned with the untold sums that await, in the Bank of England. American descendants of the ancient race of Britons, is convincingly evidenced in the following advertisement, culled from a North Jersey paper:
"The whereabouts of Miss Hattie Bell Carhart is asked for by William H Anderson, Jr., of London Heights, London, England. Miss Carhart has been named heir to one-third of Mrs. Anderson's father's estate, and is now requested by the Anderson family to depart from her relatives and friends of America and sail for England to remain with them her future life. Miss Carhart became a great favorite of the family many years ago, when they were residents of Trenton N. J. Her whereabouts will be very thankfully received at the above address."
One of the unfortunate parts of receiving the $300,000--tht is the amount available in poinds--is that Mrs. Winders is asked to relinquish her American connections and to spend the balance of her life abroad. That does not sound just right to her, coming from the younger Mr. Anderson, whose life she saved in Trenton some eight or ten years ago, but the resp of the report rings as true as can be.
Mrs. Anderson, the elder, was left some money. That is known to Mrs. Winders, for she knew the family when they lived in Cadwalader Place. She was intimately acquinted with the so, who now advertises throughout North Jersey for the girl he left in Trenton, and feels that there is a valid reason in her having saved his life, for his father's kind remembrance. She drove a horse home from Pinceton, once, when the younger Mr. Anderson was seized with one of the fits with which he was more or less afflicted.
But Mr. Lanning has calbed, and there the matter rests. An answer will clinch the expectancy of the Carharts and doubtless surprise the attorney.
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- ((story evidently ran on the national wire services, so it really has
nothing to do with Iowa))
GETS $100,000 FOR SAVING LIFE.
W i d o w W i l l Come Into Legacy as Result of Presence of Mind.
Mrs. Hattie Carhart Winders, a young widow living with her parents in Edinburg, N. J., will shortly come into a legacy of $100,000 as a reward for having saved the life of a young man in a runaway seven years ago. For more than a year agents of the estate of William H. Anderson in England have been searching in America for Mrs. Winders. They finally located her through an advertisement. The story of the accident, which she believes was the cause of the bequest in his father's will, she told as follows: "One evening Mr. Anderson took me to Princeton. As we were leaving for home he had a sudden seizure and toppled back in the carriage. The horse ran away while I was trying to arouse him. Finally I got hold of the reins and brought the horse under control!"
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1879 - Yes, date unknown