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Unsolved Mystery of Three Misers and Their Hoarded Treasures
HJ
ERE are the stories of
the hoardings of three
misers. One of these
put his savings away
securely, so securely that
thev cannot be found
the other two were more
careful about hiding their Identity than
their money, so that their fortunes re
main i -claimed.
The miser whose money las been lost
was Richard Tilley Denton He was an
Englishman who inherited $20,000 as a
young Jan. but with strict economy he
managed to keep tnis money intact until! ransa-ked, but to no avail.
he grew old. When he was sixty-five
years of age his wife died, pnd feeling that she wUJ fmd the moneT
f;m i,. nhinial and tnM her that t"i
had found the sort of bank he wanted and
had deposited the money. But he was
a shrewd and reticent old man, and to
all her inquiries as to the location and
nomo f tha hank he would Xtve BB
answer.
Not many months after he had done this
Richard Denton was stricken with
apoplexy and died without being able to
give any directions that would lead to the
locating of his money. There were no
bank books found among his effects, nor
lid he leave any papers that gave a clue,
md to this day those two bags or" gold
rejnain unfound. Every bank that was
doing business in that day has been
A daughter
of Mrs. Hone has continued the search
down to the present, but it is not likely
Perhaps
tua' he should make his home with a some bank clerk stole it and covered up
member of his family he decided to live his deed, or perhaps Richard Denton hid
with his daughter, a Mrs. Rachel Anneitbe money overnight and carried decoyaj
. . , . Ion the morning he and his daugnter went
iione, resiueni in ivanway, .. -. v- Moh
Michael King was another miser whose
eordingly he sailed from Liverpool in the
latter part of 1863 and arrived In New
York on a bleak autumn evening. His
I death brought about a mystery- King
, was born in Ireland, in 1S3T. and when
first night ashore he spent in a cheap, he m three years oM nis parents died,
lodging house on the water front, forxhe ieaving him and a younger sister to the
did not like the idea of finding His way,care of thpir grandparents. The boy
through unfamiliar parts at nignt, es-jgygj witn the old people untfi j,e was
penally as lie had bis wi.ww witn nnn. i eighteen years old. when he went to
He arrived at Mrs. Hone's Home nexti America, and not long afterward his
day without mishap, ho-ever. and that!sIster Jeft in-nA to go to England. For
afternoon he and the Hone family had aja time tne orother and sister kept in
feast for their eyes when he spread his touch with each other, but after a -while
fortune ont on a table It was an ei'lic-au correspondence between them ceased.
Ing pile of -rold composed of 4,000 sov-j The years passed. Michael King grew
ereigns Mrs. Hone felt nervous withto manhood and took a wife, Mary Rus-
all that money in the house, and so she" cn. of Troy, X. 1 . whom he married in
suggested that he bank t!ie mouoy at the! iS62. A few years later his wife died.
first opportunity; consequently the two
started for New York next morning with
the gold in two canvas bags that were
wrapped in newspapers.
Tbey went to the banking district, which
at that time centred around the City Hall,
and while the daughter stood waiting ati
the corner of Broadway and Chambers' widower.
street me rawer went on in search of a man who
bank. She stood there only fifteen
minutes, for at the end of that lapse of
No children had been born to the counleJ
so. being lonely, Michael again married.
This time he became the husband of a
New York girl. Miss Elizabeth. Cunning
ham. No children resulted from this
union either, and when this second wife
died he again found himself a lonely
Evidently King was not a
had any dislike for the yoke
of marriage, for he married a third time.
J
rundown tenement at No. 8 Downing ness or pleasure. That was before th
It Was an Enticing 'Pile of Gold Composed of 4,000 Sovereigns.
York city, to the altar in the bummer of child, a son. But the boy lived only two she died m August, 1W06, leaving him a
1SS5. This wife, who was the sister of, years and was buried in Calvarv Ceme- widower for the third time.
Kitg survived the mother, too, for After her death King moved to an old,
I
He led Miss Hannah Reagan, of NewLPolke Captain Reagan, bore King's first! tery.
street, New York, Here he led the life
of a sort of hermit He had very little
intercourse with his neighbors; they knew
him only as a miserly old man of seventy
who w orked at night as a watchman and
who kept to himself during the day. The
few that ever caught a glimpso of the
interior of the flat in which he lived were
impressed with the meagreness with
wh'ch it was furnished and the unkempt
condition of the place. As the months
went by this old carpenter (carpentry had
been his trade in his youth) became one
of the characters of old Greenwich Yil
lage. and such he continued to be until his
death in June, 1007.
ne aiea a lone and without previous
medical attendance Tins latter circnm
stance necessitated a visit of the coroner,
and while that official was making an
i examination of the place he came across
bank books which showed that Michael
King was a depositor in twelve banks.
mis oia miser, who had managed to
get along with almost less than a suf
ficient amount of food, died worth $12,
000! As soon as the coroner found that
the man had died a natural death, the
effects were turned over to the Pnblic
Administrator and search was started for
the man's heirs. Agents were imme
diately sent to Ireland o look up the
man's sister, but they found not the
least trace of her nor of any member of
Kings family. If she is still alive she
is a woman of seventy -three, and niiite
possibly she would welcome an inheritance
of $12,000. She is the only heir that the
law will recognize, otherwise the money
would have been disposed of a vear or so
ago when Patrick Russell, brother of
King's first wife, put in a claim to it.
And while the search for Michael's sister
goes on the $12,000 lies waiting in the
Kcity treasury.
The third miser was a man who was
known to frequenters of the Tenderloin
as "Kane the Cabby." For forty years
Frank D. Kane drove e cab about the gay
part of town and during that time made
the acquaintance of many "sports,"
saloon keepers, gamblers, policemen and
others who haunt the Tenderloin for busi-
aaveut of the taxicab. and a cabman had
jan individuality then. Hence Kane's
alliterative nickname.
His stand for a good many years was
in front of Rector's, and ' was a 5jcra
tive one. But the fact that he took in
goodly sized fees almost every night did
not lead Kane to spend freely. He care
fully banked all he got and would draw
out onl. such sums as he required to pay
for his living He was in fact a miser,
and. like most misers, had a mistrust of
banks whih led him to divide his de
posits among no less than ten institution
For sixteen years previous to his death
in 1908 Kane lived in a boarding hons
in East Fortieth street He was friendly
with his fellow boarders, but by no mean'
intimate. Not even his landlady conic
break down the man's reserve, bnt it was
understood in the house that he had a
past luite evidently his rignt name wa
not Kane, for that is the name of natives
of Ireland, and this man's features plainly
showed that he was of Jewish extraction
Only once did he let any information
concerning his youth escape him. He re
marked casually during an ordinary con
versation that he had been born in Chi-
fcago, that his parents had died -when he
was verv young and that his boyhood
had been spent on a farm in 111'nois. And
that is all that is known about him
His death was a sudden one. He was
survived only by an old bay mare and
an ancient cab. After waiting for the
man's heirs to appear the Public Adminis
trator sold both of these and with the
money bought a grave in Kensfco Ceme
tery. Frank D. Kane lies in that grave;
"Frank D. Kane" is the inscription on
the tombstone, but it means nothing. He
might just as well have been buried under
any other name, in so far as that one
identifies him. And it is important that
he be identified, for in lie city treasury
there are many thousands of dollars wait
ing for any one who will bring forth a
legal claim to it
A stirring tale, in which, is divulged
the secrets and operations of a band of
wiretappers, will be the subject of next
week's article.
Exiled Hindu Prince Student Declares Dancing Is Not for Men
mum
to you tango?" asked the
i interviewer.
The countenance of Mr.
f D. S. Gill, student of the
V Columbia School of
i Mines, grew a little dark
and haughty. Polite
ness straggled with distaste.
"No," he said somewhat sternly, "w
dv not dance; only women dance. Before
their own people, in their homes, the
women of onr families dance. In the
public places, where only men can see
them, the women not morally high dance;
bu t as for men never 1"
"Bnt you see all the men dancing, es
pecially now when everybody is so en
raptnred witn the pastime."
"Yea, for the men here; but there are
some customs which we do not adopt,
even when we come to your -country. To
Oldest Alumnus of Yale.
DR. DAVID FISHER ATWATER,
said to be the oldest alumnus of
Yale University, recently celebrated
his ninety-sixth birthday at his home in
Springfield, Mass. He is the only sur
viving member of the class of '39 and the
senior alumnus of the class of '42, Yale
Medical School.
Years have dealt kindly with Dr. At-i-ater,
whose step is vigorous for a nona
genarian. His eyesight is still keen and
his hearing is unimpaired. Most remark
able of all are Dr. Atwater's mental
faculties. Not only does he retain a firm,
hold on the past, but th news of the
present art, science and literature, are of
all absorbing daily interest.
Dr. Atwater was born in North Bran
ford, Conn , October 29, 1817. His father,
the Rev Charles Atwater. was for many
j ears pastor of the Congregational Church
us it would seem unsuitable for tnerf toj
dance,"
D. S. Gill has converted Ms sonorous
name of Sirdas, Dalip Singh Gill into the
Americanized version which appears onj
the Columbia university register, in order
that he may be a democrat of the demo-1
crata. He wishes to take no undue state
during his university career, and has fur
ther demonstrated his desire for Ameri
can simplicity by setting aside his title of
Sirdar, which means military chief and
which at home entitles him to deference
from everybody in rank below a prince.
PNot only is he showing his determination
to be very modern and very American by
appearing upon the rolls in so unpict
nresque a guise, but he has gone in for a
far more vital innovation.
Mr. Gill has set aside the most insistent
tradition of his ancestors he is working
for his living, and yet his father is a mili-
Itary chieftain and a Sikh, who traces his
ancestry fourteen hundred years. Like
all his race, he can see no reason
whj any son of his should wander to for
eign lands and spend his days in hard
labor for the acquirement of practical arte
in no way necessary for the proper con-,
duct of life of a Hindu of position. j
In order that he may take back to hisi
home the diploma of the Columbia School
of Mmes, Sirdar Dalip Singh, as he would
be called in his home, is living in partial
defiance of tne will of his parents, wnoi
do not desire that he should stay in this!
country. For that reason he does not re
ceive from his family the income which!
was at first sent to him when he started
out to see the world, and his parents sup-
piratru i nit i ue woiua speedily return toi
rheni to settle down like the rest of hisi
friends to a life of ease, broken only, per-j
haps, by military activity from time to
time. I
"I wanted to come to the United i
in V.M. K T(.onf ..! A ftot. I",- Af,x-otn..D
",. - ... , itr , ,i IStntes even when I was a little bov " ex-!
graduation from lnle in 1N! and the , . T. . "nc wj,
Medical School in 1S42 he was appointed
plains JJalip Singh. "I used to read!
about it in my first books and I wasj
more lnierestea in tnis country than in
any other. When I finally got here I
found it all that I had thought I shall
go back to my country when I have com
pleted my studies, but I shall never re
turn to the life that most of my friends
lead. I shall make money for myself. I j
like the way that everybodj in the United j
utiles starts out to make money, for him
self At home my father would say,
'iliere is plenty of money for us to live
well, why cannot you do as I have doe
and as jour grandfather did? What has
done for us will do for you. It is not
proper that a son of mine should labor
for money.'
"Here also" said Dalip Singh saga
ciously, "many persons will tell you that
it is not nsht to run after money so very
hard, but I notice that they are all run
ning "
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assistant ph.. sKian at Btlkvue Hospital,1, ;n : . Z, . ,,
,. , ,. . imng either in the town residence of his
?l r 7 ti f aTerVr, !,? father' in Piate"- or jn the suburban
at Belle, ue Charles D.kens ,Mted ihw via jn whJse flowpr fm
countrj, and Dr. Atwater tended ily gathers during the pleasant weather,
banquet given by the Mayor of New ..Tnere f'OT my pleasure T conld hunt
York in honor of the author. I tlgprs and ,ions fa the Jungles,, Mid Da,.
Leading Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Atwater Smgh ..or the wd boar which .g eren
located in Brooklyn. hile in Brooklyn raore aangerous. j have often buated the
he was surgeon of the Sixtj -fourth New Wlld boarbut that was in my bovhood
York regiment He was a charter mem- when t wa6 t00 sma and weak to'use ft
ber of the American Medical Society and spm. t Hsed a rifle to shoot fhe
one of the original members of the New but thia wonM not now pent
England Society of Brooklyn. Dr. At- cause jt has been too easy to kill' the
water moved to Cleveland on account of animals in this way. Even children can
ill health and later came to Springfield si,00t the beast, and this has led to an
His brother George M Atwater, who died unwise slaughter Now there is a law
a few irs ago at the age of eighty-se en, m the State uf Piatella .that the boar can
was the founder and for many years eon-' be killed only with the spear To throw
trnllmg stockholder of the Springfield tl e spear takes not onlj skill but strength.
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they can write none about, anything that
will make trouble for onr people at home.
They are suspicious that we have politi
cal interests and that we shall go home to
make them trouble in the days to come.
My ancestor, Colonel Budh Singh, had a
much greater estate than has my father.
but he fought with the native troops
against the British in fhe uprising of
1849. He was killed in that war, and the
British government took the estate f.-om
his line and gave it to a cousin who bad
fought on their side. Bnt this cousin was
unwilling that his family should be des
titute, and so part of it he returned to my
father.
"I have no intention of returning to my
home to take any part against the gov
ernment I am a man of peace. I stall
go back to work at my profession, and I
shall help my own people all that I can.
That is, I shall help them toward an edu
cation such as is given here. In aH ways
possible I shall ' help my people toward
progress, but in politics I have no interest
I will be one of four or five native en
gineers. Almost all of that sort of work
in my country is now done by Englishmen
or Americans."
Indian Girl Writes Opera.
ST last there has been produced an
indisputably American opera, "The
Sun Dance," written by Zitkala Sa,
a full blooded Sioux Indian, the wife of
Mr. R. T. Bonnin, an employe of the
government on the Uintah Indian Res
ervation at Vernal, Utah, collaborating
with Professor W. Hansen.
The opera, which was recently given
at the academy on the reservation.
tells the story of the return of the sun
.from its death during the winter, of the
kindliness of its light and warmth as it
the feat successfully.
"There is danger in hunting the boar
unless the hunter keeps his lie.td and re
members to step instantly aside after the
Bitot is made. The boar goes straight
ahead always, and apparently is unable to
sense the fact that his intended victim
has stepped out of this direct line. The
ferocious animal and there is none more
furious flies directly toward the place
from which the shot comes, and if ue
has not been mortally wounded woe to
the hunter who is -in his path ! But just
one step aside and the .fcpast is thrown off
the trail; he cannot swerve to attack at
the new point Strangely enough many
do not do this. It is not every man who
SARDAR DALIP !HGH fiHL,
"It is ueuaily men
can tnink quickly enough or act quickly
enough upon his thought to make this bjjrjj station who play upon the musical
simple effort to e.n e his life." j Instruments," he explains. "We have
In addition to being the only non-tan- them come in to our entertainments to
going student in the university Dalip piay for us. We sit and listen just as we
Singh possesses the distinction tof being watch the dance, but we do not ourselves
one of the rare students who never twang iafford entertainment for others."
the light guitar or appeal to the fairj Loftily placed as he is upon Unhersitj
maids of Barnard throurt the dnic-t neights, Dalip Singh has not failed to ob
notes of a musical instrument.. Here 8erse many of the interesting phases of
again, in spite of his adopted American-' meriean life beyond the pale of aca-
lsm, the home traditions, hae prevailed .lomm mtl rests Dnmextle ennlitlnn: lw rn
buy can rarely accomplish J with Sirdar Dalif Singh. ' he tonipnres with those at homo, with
who are not of so the balance a little in the home direction.
"Of dnorce we know nothing,' he s. js,.
"About ninety per cent of the marned
pairs get along happily at home. About
ten per cent do not live happily, but (.till
they continue to live together. About five
per cent decide that they can no longer
live together and the man goes l'oiue to
his familj, while the girl oes hume to her
family. Then after two or thee years
they may again try to live together If
they cannot then ij;ree, each again oes
to hitj oi her own home to staj.
"And do they marry, again?"
"No. For one thing they could get no-
ody to marry. A man will say of the
girl, Well, she could not live happily with
her husband, so she could not live happily
with me.' A girl will also say that of a
man who could not live well with his
I first wife."
"For one thing, there is not so much
reason for divorce as here. You see
eerybody is married, every person.
There are no unmarried men or unmarried
women for the married people who are
discontented with heir own husbands or
wives to go around with When a "nan
, thinks he would like to have the wife of
another man for his own wife it is soon
found out by the husband, and then the
husband shoots both of them. That is
understood.
'You see," added Dalip Singh, as if
presenting the universal solution, "it is
entirely different It :s not possible" for
the wife to call up a man on the telephone
and say, 'I'll meet you at the theatre !' "
"How do they manage to have things
go peaceftillv with more than one wife in
'the house?" asked the reporter
"Oh, that is so very rare that it hardly
needs to be considered at all." said Mr.
Gill. "You see the poor men cannot af
ford more than one wife and the well to
do men do not want more than one. Also
it is necessary that the first wife should
agree that there should be a second wife.
In the very rare cases where there is a
second wife it is because the first wife
has borne no heir and it is often she
rather than the man of the house who
decides that there must be a second wife
She selects the wife for him, usnallyfrom
the women of her own family, her sister
or cousin A his is the case where tne
man has a larse estate which they desire
, to keep in the family Then when the
new wife comes and bears children the
first wife is frequently given the care of
the children while the second wife has'
household duties to perfiorm. The two
women he m harmony, because the new-
. i
corner is bound to gie respect tnd
ohedience to the first wife. The husband
mast also gne hi respect and obedience
in household iff nrs to the first wife and
he nmt shire his nn nine with her. You
see, after all, the onlj difference between
there and here i- that m my country the
wives know h n their husbands take a
second wife while in this country the
wives do not know
"We haven't cot suffrage in our coun
try, but in main wij there are more
rights for women than there are here. In
the househo'd t'le woman is the absolute
ruler and hei hr-!und obejs her entirely
in household inatteis
"What happens if he does not obey?"
"Well it would not be a happy home
The w ife also has alf of all the hus
band's income. If he is a pooi man he
dn ides all his, money w ltn her If he is
a rich man h puts the monev in the bank
and tells tier w hat is there. Our word for
w ife means 'half.' "
v Since he started out to be a self support
ing stadent Dalip Singh has found library
agreeable sources flora which he may de-j "" K Bonnm 1-Kkala S&).
ric an income. During a walk acioss falls on the earth, of the plants, and the
the Columbia campus, he confided to the trees that t-prmg forth ind crow under
inter-new er his earnest wish to be known its rajs, and of the whole world rejoic
as a peaceful person not interested in ing in the sunshine
politics. I ' For years Professor Hansen had wit-
The interviewer promised. "But why?", nested the annual sun dance of the In
he asked. , Idiaus, had watched the rhjthmic shnf-
"Because of the detectives," aid Dalip' fling of their feet, the posturing of their
Sirgh "You mils' know that wremer bcdie. in the historic pantomime that
there are nat'es of Ii lia mi foreign mlin- had come down to tuem from their foie
tiiev there aKo are the detectives of the, fathers,, who danced the dance in the
Rrtisli goeinment. watching, always1 same fashion long before the white man
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