True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 258 pages of information about True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office.

True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 258 pages of information about True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office.

1 The land of Central Park ceded to the
    city of New York, of the value of $5,000,000.00

2 He had at the National Bank—­United
    States Bank—­deposited in gold—­twenty
    to thirty million dollars.  He
    never withdrew anything; on the
    contrary, he always deposited his income
    there 25,000,000.00

3 The big house on Broadway, Nos. 100
    to 118, of twenty-five stories, to-day
    the largest bank in New York 5,000,000.00

4 The house on Fifth Avenue, No. 765,
    facing Central Park, to-day one of
    the first hotels of New York—­Hotel
    Savoy 8,000,000.00

5 House on Fifth Avenue, No. 767, facing
    Central Park, to-day the biggest
    and most handsomest of American
    hotels, where the greatest people and
    millionaires stop—­Hotel Netherland 20,000,000.00

6 Two coal mines at Folkustung in Texas 9,000,000.00

7 A petroleum mine in Pennsylvania
    (Mexican frontier) 6,000,000.00

8 Shares of silver mine at Tuxpan,
    Mexico 10,000,000.00

9 The house at Tuxpan and its grounds,
    Mexico 15,000.00

10 The pleasure home and grounds in
    Florida (New Orleans) in the city of
    Coney Island 500,000.00

11 The house which covers all the Esquare
    Plaza (no number because it is all
    alone).  It is an immense palace,
    with a park and gardens, and waters
    forming cascades and labyrinths,
    facing Central Park 12,000,000.00

12 The block of houses on Fifth and Sixth
    Avenues, facing on this same Central
    Park, which, as all these grounds belong
    to him, he had put up.  They
    are a hundred houses, that is called
    here a block 30,000,000.00

13 He is the owner of two railroads and
    owns shares of others in Pennsylvania
    and Canada 40,000,000.00

14 A line of steam and sail boats—­Atlantic. 
    The Pennsylvania and the Tessier
    and other names 100,000,000.00

15 A dock and a quay of eight hundred
    meters on the Brooklyn River for
    his ships 130,000,000.00

16 Several values and debts owed him and
    which at his death had not been collected $40,000.00
          
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                                      $390,555,000.00

Which is in francs 1,952,775,000
Plus 5 per cent 976,388
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Total in francs 1,953,751,388

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