DIED A PAUPER

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1931, Page 8

DIED A PAUPER

CANADIAN WOMAN FINANCIER.

VANCOUVER, December 22. Starting over again at the age of 50 with only a few dollars to her name, Airs Sara Atkins, Western Canada’s most astonished woman financier, had amassed a fortune of £250,000 at the age of 65. But she lost it all, and died at the age of 79, a pauper, except that her,, obstinate loyalty to a trust through 25 years had brought her, near the end, enough to pay her funeral expenses. ’She was chairman, 25 years ago ,of a community effort which raised £2OOO for hospital funds. A hot dispute‘arose regarding the disposal of the money, and having it in a bank account in her own name, -Mrs Atkins Obstinately refused to appropriate it except for its original purposes. A lawsuit failed to move her, and in the course of years the matter was p<ut aside and forgotton. Recently, fearing death, Mrs Atkins applied to the Courts to dispose of the money, which, in the meantime, at compound interest, had grown to £SOOO. The Court awarded her a liberal commission for her faithful stewardship, and this fund -provided the funeral expenses.