WEALTHY CLAIRVOYANTE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5285, 11 June 1928, Page 4

WEALTHY CLAIRVOYANTE.

ESTATE VALUED AT £50,362. The late Mary Scales, of Dowling Street, Paddington, widow, who was well known in Sydney some years ago as a clairvoyant©, ;and ! who died in April, has left, an estate of the value of £50,362.

Mrs Scales has figured prominently in an Equity suit in connection with the estate of her late husband, George Scales', when she claimed certain moneys as belonging to her.

It w.as during those proceedings that 12,000 sovereigns were said to have been buried by Mrs Scales in her gardten.

Being dissatisfied with the result of the proceedings she took the matter to the Privy Council, and was successful b.efore that tribunal. Mrs Scale® bequeathed £lOOO to Clarence Thomas Brown Glasscock, to be employed by him towards the education and 'advancement of Clarrie Parsons Glasscock, Jervis Huon Glasscock, and Betty Ellen Glasscock, or the survivors of them.

Subject to certain other bequests, she Left the residue of her. personal estate, and the whole of her real estate, to her trustees, to convert into money, excepting the real estate ’woperties in Flinders, Bourke, Victoria, and Nimrod Streets, Sidney, and Dowling Street, Paddington, known as her reserve properties.

By the will Mrs Scales, directed that, if she were successful in her litigations, £3 a week was to be paid to her son, and £5 a week each to her two daughters during their lives. She further directed that the trustees were to provide for the maintenance in life of the female issue of her children, and take- all proper steps- to ascertain who, of her next of kin — not bei-gg the next of kin. of her husband — were in poor .and needy circumstances, and to distribute among them the proceeds of certain funds and properties in equal shares.