NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

“(iOMj CiIKJ,” liKi'T £2,000,000 1 IX TEHEE YEARS. W 1 XEW YORK, Oct 2.9 “The Gold Giri” is the, name gi/uu by her friends to Mrs Marian Stewait i lloneyman, daughter ol the inventor of c the Stewart Spedometer, on whom, since her father's death three yet.s | ago, a perfect shower oi riches has descended. | When her father died Marian, already ( married to a well-to-do man, received ( the residue of the estate, only a sm<nl sum. A year later a clerk in the Stewart Speedometer Company’s office discovered among the files bank deposit slips showing that Stewart had over CHI 10,000 deposited in a Chicago bank. This sum went to Marian as residuary legatee. i A few months later her guardian , found among some old papers a receipt - for the. payment by Stewart of the reo- | till for a safe deposit box in another > bank of which there was no mention in | i the will. This proved to contain bonds ! worth £CO.(K)O, which also went to Mar- ; rinn. i Tn July 1919 Marian ordered the loft j other kite mother’s house to lie cleared ' out. On going through the rubbish the j servants found a battered suit-case, ' formerly her father’s. Inside were '.'126.000 worth of securities, j The climax came last week when her ! young sister died. As next-of-kin Marian now benefits to the extent of another £1,0007000. The golden rain has brought her in all over .02,000,000.