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"If" the lawyer angle is accurate, then it's certain to be someone who was comfortable to place his trust in Ward. By acting as the agent Ward would have been the shield, or the pre-screener of the possible contacts and claims, this arrangement then allowing Ward to pass the information to the attorney so he could evaluate each inquiry or claim without exposing his own identity. So basically, in this sense, the Beale Pamphlet would have been the bait. And if this is the case it would have been this way, otherwise claims would have started piling in the moment the public realized an attorney was looking for possible unknown heirs to a yet recovered fortune. Can you imagine the amount of bogus claims that would have come rushing in. It would be like running an ad in the newspaper asking who lost the winning multimillion dollar lottery ticket you just found.But with Ward in place the attorney could then pick and choose which claims he felt could be valid. Remember, as an attorney, he would have to create a casefile on every claim that walked through the door otherwise.
Don't YOU know about the attorney who had VLoN...? DIRECT descendant of Hutter...? VLoN is VERY LEGALISTIC (English-language) "on-line"...