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OVER A MILLION POUNDS YORKSHIRE WIDOW'S CLAIM. Claim to the estate of the late Mr Edward A. Ridley, an eighty-eight year-old millionaire, who was murdered in New York, has been laid by a York shire widow. Mr Ridley was reputed to be worth well over £ 1,000,000. The claimant to this huge fortuness is Mrs Florence Moore. She bases her right to the estate on the fact that Mr Ridley died intestate and that she, as his first cousin, is his nearest living relative. There are both romance and tragedy hidden behind the widow’s claim. Her father, Alfred Ridley, was one of five brothers, the children of a school mas ter at Newark, Nottinghamshire. One of the brothers, Edward Ridley, went to America in 1849, and from such a humble beginning as that of a street hawker finally became the pro prietor of three big stores in New York. This brother was the father of Ed ward A. Ridley, the murdered man, and at his death he bequeathed a con siderable fortune to his son. The lat ter, however, added wealth to wealth by various financial dealings relating to mortgage and shire oberg trans actions. He is said to have lived a curious life, being miserly in his own personal habits, a subscriber to various charities in an unostentatious way, and yet very exacting in his financial deal Wes. The mysterious murder is believed by the New York police to have been the work of some of Mr Ridley's former clients Whoever the murderers were, they not only killed the money-lender, but also Iis secretary, Leo Weinstein, who was said to possess all his master’s secrets. Curiously enough, a previous secretary to Mr Ridley, Herman Moench, was also murdered. A will which was found bequeathing £ 50,000 to Weinstein was subsequently discovered to be a forgery, in connec tion with which two New York account ants have been arrested. Mrs Moore has placed her case in the hands of a Leeds arm of solicitors, and they have instructed their New York agents to lodge a claim on her behalf and to investigate her position with regard to the estate and to the intes tacy under American law. Mrs Moore met her cousin once when his father brought him on a visit to Newark, but she was a child at the time and has only a slight recollection of the occasion. She has since last toyed with him. She is the widow of Mr John James Moore, a Leeds fore mgn tailor, and she keeps house for two unmathed daughters,who are both employed by a firm of wholesale clo thiers in Leeds.
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Clyde Dunstan Times
Clyde, South Island, NZ
Mon, Sep 04, 1933
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