FORTUNES CHANGE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1933, Page 7

FORTUNES CHANGE

FROM LUXURY DOWN TO POVERTY.

THE LATE MRS EDGAR WALLACE,

LONDON, April 10. Mi‘s, Edgar Wallace, whose death <vas announced yesterday, almost with--1 in a year of the death of hot* huaiHUHil, lias had remarkable' ups and | b downs of fortune. Quite recentlv s h o was compelled to take up her pen in the hope of earning her own living, *. for > a s she wrote in “Nash’s Magazine,” a year ago she had not a care in the world, and could have had eveiy luxui’3' that money could buy, but it was found that her husband’s liabilities at his death far exceeded Ins assets, and that of race-horses, j houses, motor-cars and servants nothing was left, and finally even the royalties had to go too. , “This meant,” she wrote, “that we ,iad absolutely nothing to hope for in . the shape of income for the future. |Tome it was unbelievable. I had seen our position improving year after year, and had dreamed with Edgar for more and more prosperity. I was so Used to the ease with which he could make money tuat it seemed incredible to me that that hitherto always increasins supply could be so suddenly cut . off.” {