VIVID PERSONALITY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 9

VIVID PERSONALITY

Unavailing Search FORTUNE AWAITS HER LONDON. A yotmg Englishwoman, once known as the most talented cbild in the world, is being sought throughout two continents, because part of the fortune left by a Kentish doctor is waiting for her. She made a reputation as a novelist, poetess, and athlete, has married three times, and gone through three divorces. Yet for five years she seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. She is a beneflciary under the will of her uncle, Dr. John Sackville, of Highbury Park, Kent, a relative of • Lord Sackville. of Knole, Sevenoaks. The last heard of her was in 1932 when she- wrote to relatlves from Los Angeles, California. This vivid personality who has yet vanished so completely was formerly Miss Winifred Stoner, who was born with teeth already cnl: at twelve months used words of several syllables;- at five years wrote verse, books, magazine articles, had a working knowledge of mathematics, had memorised many of the ciassics. and played several musical instruments; at nine passed an ^merican college examlnation; at tvFelve graduated from a university, could speak nine languages, was listed in America's "Who's "Who," illustrated her own magazine articles, swam, rowed, boxed, played baseball, rode horses, cooked, drove her own car. Amcrica, where she has lived nearly ali her life, called her Ihe most amazing child in its history. She is 35 now. •At nineteen she married Count Philippe Clinton de Bruche. Her other husbands were Louis Human. a New Yorker, and Earl Winston Harrison. Miss Stoner'^ mother. Dr. Winifred Sackville Stoner, who won a rep. tation as an educationist in America — she urged boys and girls to marry at eighteen and sixteen and encouragcd girls to propose — died in New Yor six years ago. DOCTOR'S SISTER. She was a sister of Dr. Sackville, of Highbury Park. . Notices asking for news of Miss Stoner ("needed to settle an English estate") h-ve just been inserted in New York newspapers. Mr. H. SaqkviPe, a wholesale grocer of Washington, Pennsylvania, another uncle o f- Miss Stoner, states that he inserted the notices. He has rece ed details o' the estate, which is sai" to consist chiefly of bon \i. the value of which has not been estimated. He has found his niece has left the last address known to him.