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Establishes Her Claim

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
December
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 21 - Mrs. Julius Miller, of this city, has just succeeded in proving her identity and establishing her claim as heir to an estate valued at something over $100,000, left some years ago to her father, John Frederick Miller. Some months ago letters came here addressed to J. F. Miller, in which was the news of their good fortune, but they were delivered by mistake to another Miller of the same name. When he saw that they were not intended for him he returned them to the firm of New York attorneys who had the case in charge.

The story was published in the newspapers at the time, and Mrs. Miller in that way heard of it, but not until after the letters had been returned. She then began a systematic search for the New York attorneys, whose names were not known here. Esch interested himself in the case, and finally through the German consul in Chicago, Mrs. Miller's claim was established, and she will get the money for herself and her children.