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HEIRS FIGHT FOR WEALTH_0F THIEFDeath of Bill the Brute, Clark Parker of Pasadena, StartsContest for $1,000,000.• New York.—-WUat would the old cronies In crime of Clark Parker, once internationally Infamous us Bill the Brute, burglar, thief and receiver; of stolen goods, say If they Knew lie left an estate -of $1,000,000 for .eminently respectable relative^ and heirs ;to. sqmibbla, over? 'What might be the comment of his^ one-time pal, Eddie (Suertn, bad man from the West who achieved no end of notoriety as the only man ever to escape from dread Devil’s Island, the French .penal colony where Dreyfus and untold ot^ier xmfortunates languished? What would Eddie think of that cool million, Eddie who robbed •the silk-lined Bank of Lyons of 200,-000 francs with Bill the Brute, but who had to be sentenced to a British jail at sixty’-one in 1920 for filching pennies from a pedestrian?Dijsd a Recluse,Clark Parker died in.(Pasadena, Cal., in .January, 1922, a recluse millionaire, aged -eighty. For many years he was well known to the police of America anti Europe, but suddenly settled down to respectability in Boston.His brother, Benjamin Parker, was at the tlmg a.resident of Boston and one respected alike in business and society. He was the Molasses King j and he bequeathed his entire fortune in trust to:,the reformed. Clark. Clark quadrupled it by careful investments —honest Investments—and In 1910 moved to the Pacific coast, living In' seclusion until his wife's death, alone after she was taken from him. , .Bill the Brute did not win his brother’s fortune without a bitterly fuughl y legal contest. Dr. Frederick P. Gay.I now a member of the University of-! California faculty, his hephew, led fs
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 20, 1923
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