THE PAGE MILLIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3556, 22 June 1912, Page 7

THE PAGE MILLIONS.

SOUTH WALES BAKER’S WIFE TO MAKE A CLAIM TO HUGE ESTATE.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

LONDON, May lb. A South Wales claimant for the Page millions will shortly come torward in the person of Mrs Hudson, whose husband keeps a baker s shop at Little Forest, near Swansea. Mr Hudson, interviewed by a Press representative, explained that Henry Page was the son of a Richard Page, and Henry died without issue, owing to which fact the famous estate should have reverted to Richard Page’s second son, John. John married, and had a son named Thomas, and Mrs Hudson’s mother was the last of Thomas Page’s children. Mr Hudson said that when Mrs Hudson’s mother was dying she asked her daughter to promise that if the matter of the claim to the estate came up she would see into it. When the claim came up some two or three years ago they made inquiries, and discovered a number of old papers in which curiously enough the name of Tappenden was mentioned. It will be remembered that Mrs Tappenden was an unsuccessful claimant, in the Probate Court in respect of these very millions. “We have not given up hope of our claim,” said Mrs Hudson. Mr Hudson also added that about ninety years ago there appeared in the newspapers an advertisement seeking the whereabouts of John Page, in connection with the estate, and if that could be discovered it would be a valuable support to the claim of Mrs Hudson.

Mrs Tappenden, said Mr Hudson was on the female side of the Pages; whilst they were on the male side. It is also announced that Morris, the well-known Australian claimant to the Page millions, is about to “try liis luck” again this summer.