REVUE-GIRL'S STORY OF £15,000 FORTUNE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

REVUE-GIRL'S STORY OF £15,000 FORTUNE.

HEIRESS TO YOUNG OFFICER KILLED IN FRANCE. PAY BOOK WILL. ROMANTIC SEQUEL TO MEETING AT BRIGHTON. One of the prettiest romances of the war has recently come to light. Miss "Pat" Bell, a revue artist, who was appearing in Mr. Harry Day s revue, "Keep to the Right," at the Grand Theatre, Clapham Junction, London, has inherited a fortune of over £15,000 from Lieutenant E. R. Muloch, of the Gordon Highlanders, who fell in action at Neuve Chapellc. " I received my first intimation of Lieutenant Muloch's death," she informed a London journalist, from reading it in the official casualty lists.'' "Then I remembered the will. He had shown it to me when lie was over in England on leave. I his is how it ran: "In the event of my death I give all my possesions and effects t.) Mary Patricia Steer"—that, you know, is my real name. " Unfortunately, the witness who attested the will was also killed at the front. So the validity of the document had to be established in tho courts That didn't take twenty minutes." Lieutenant Muloch, who was only twenty-five years of age, liadi been a member of the Artists' Rifles for six years. When war broke out lie joined up as a private, but obtained his commission within two months. He had been employed as a schoolmaster at Streatkam. "I first met him," said Miss Peel, "at the Hotel Metropole at Brighton three years ago. "W e were much attached to each other, and he used to write to me every day from the front. " One day, when he was home oil leave, he said to me: 'You needn t worry; nothing will ever happen to me.'* Before a month was over he was dead."

SECRET REVEALED. "And what are your future prospects?" "Well," replied Miss Peel, "I have my resignation in my bag," and she produced from that areceptacle a sealed envelope. "But, she added, with a smile, "I do not think I shall deliver it—yet." Miss Peel, who is a pretty brunnette of great vivacity, is an exceedingly

popular member of the company, the members of which were unmistakably sincere in their congratulations. Mie j claims to be a cousin of Sir Robert Peel. | Mr. B. J. Seabrook, the manager of the revue, told the "Sunday Pictorial" ! that he first became aware of Miss Peel's good fortune on Friday, when she announced her intention of leaving the company. Lieutenant Muloch's father was a fleet surgeon, and his grandfather was a man of considerable property, j His will, of which probate has been granted to Miss Peel, was written in the Army form in his pay-book. Subject to a life interest Miss Peel gets stocks and shares alone amounting to about £lo,ooo, as well as two properties in County Kerry and County Cork, | each bringing in about £3O per annum, I and a house at Southsea. I There are London and Xorth-West-ern Railway Company ordinary and preference shares amounting to £10,225; Great Western preference shares. £2,591; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway shares (ordinary ;.nd preference), £'2,100; and East India 3} per cent, stock amounting to £1,006 ss. In this money the actress has a revisionary interest, but she states that she wjll ;;t once benefit to the extent of £2OO. I ■ -