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Subject: [EDWARDS-L] newspaper 6
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:34:06 EDT

This is it for the clippings that I have. I do have some letters form a J. T.
Turpin to my gt grandmother, they are all written in 1924 and 1925.. If you
all are interested I can copy them also. It seems that he was the Sec. &
Treas. of the Edwards chapter that she belonged to. In one of them he says
that a report he had said the lease was in Canada and that if it is there he
was going after it. Nothing else is mentioned about in the the letters I
have. She might have quit saving them or they got lost. Also have a copy of
the Edwards arms. If anyone is interested I willtry and scan it and send it
to whoever wants it. If you are interested in the family arms please send a
message directly to me.

Vicki

Newspaper clipping in the possession of Lula Marshall Rinke. Newspaper from
Louisville, KY, date unknown. Possible an Indiana Newspaper as she lived in
Indiana.

Mystery Speaker Tells Heirs of Edwards to Dig Up Deeds
A mysterious stranger addresses the meeting this morning when 150 heirs of
Robert Edwards, who are laying claim to $3,000,000,000 of property in New York
City, gathered in the assembly room of the Louisville Free Public Library to
further their plans to obtain possession of the property.
This stranger was introduced as "Mr. J. L. Thomas of New York, record keeper,"
but one of the heirs stated he was in reality a New York official going under
an assumed name who had consented to come to the meeting but did not want his
official capacity made known. He is not of the heirs.
"Mr. Thomas" told the heirs, who represented organizations formed in six
States of the Midwest, they would have to complete their family tree and
obtain a complete abstract of the grant and deeds to the property.
Miss Mary Louise Smith, one of the heirs, asked form the floor for the
stranger to identify himself. This he refused to do, for personal reasons he
said. The chairman then explained his reasons were of a business nature, that
he worked in the records office and had merely come here to tell what he knew.
Associations have been formed by the heirs in South Carolina, West Virginia,
Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and the Midwest. Many of the heirs
reside in Kentucky, Shelby and Boyle Counties.
Most of those present looked askance at a reporter, seemingly averse to
publicity and an air of distrust pervaded the meeting. The heirs seemed to be
divided into different camps, each of which looked dubiously on the lineage of
the others.
The property they are claiming lies in the heart of New York and includes the
Wall Street district, the Woolworth Building and the Old Trinity Church.
The land in question was leased in 1778, according to the heirs for a period
of ninety-nine years and since expiration of the lease in 1877 has been held
in trust by a New York trust company, which is reported to have offered a
compromise of $88,000,000.

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