REWARDED WITH MILLIONS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 610, 22 February 1921, Page 2

REWARDED WITH MILLIONS.

TEA HAWKER’S KIN DACT. \ Formerly a hawker of tea and coffee in the suburbs of Sydney, David Kidd Bryne—the Bryne only recently added —is now settled in Bathurst, N.S.W., in unmolested possession of an estate worth at least two millions. The story, as told by the Post’s Sydney correspondent, is a most romantic one.

About 15 years ago David Kidd was hawking tea in Montreal. He was an earnest young man, interested in good works and a Y.M.C.A. missionary. He was accosted one night by a young woman, who asked him to buy her a drink. Kidd did not accept the suggestion, but he tolk the girl that she ought to have a drink from the fountain of life.” He talked to her very earnnestly about herself and evidently impressed him. She followed him home and sought another, interview. Kidd tried his best to help her, and then discovered she was Lucy Bryne, the only daughter of a millionaire living in Florida. She had drifted into a life of dissipation, and run away, and her father had been searching in vain or her. Kill communicated with the father, and, maintaining influence over the girl, he was responsible for her repentant return to her father. Her health was undermined, however, and she died at home a few months later.

Kidd then came to Australia, •where, for a few months, he hawked tea and coffee in and around Sydney, and had many ups and downs. The millionaire, Bryne, succeeded in tracing him, took him back to America, and established him at the head of a church in Chicago, where he was given ample funds for evangelical work. He was named in the old man’s will for £SOOO. When his daughter died, Bryne re-arranged his will, and when he died a couple of vears ago, it was jfound that Kidd had inherited the vdiole of his estate, worth £2,000,000, consisting mostly of oil, and mining interests in Mexico and mining interests in Australia and the Argentine. When Kidd was struggling in Sydney, he got down and" out, and a Bathurst dentist named J. H> Stocks, lent him £5. “You’ll never regret it.,” said Kidd. It has taken a couple of years to settle the affairs of the estate. Kidd (now Bryne) has taken Stocks to live with him.