SOME LUCKY WINDFALLS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8944, 9 October 1907, Page 4

SOME LUCKY WINDFALLS.

» That the days of romantic windi falls are not over is proved by the re- ’’ cent report that a lady clerk in i Washington is £1,800,000 richer by j the death of a great nncle, on whom j she had never set eyes. And Miss Hume is only one of many lucky t people who, within the last year or j two, have had unexpected fortunes * showered on them, according to the newspapers, i For example, George Stratford, a j New York policeman, was said to 1 have inherited £8,000,000 on the j death of an uncle; Michael Mei Donald, a caretaker, of Great Har- ! wood, near Blackburn, shared with a brother the fortune of a millionaire uncle ; a young Russian named Gop- ■ vie, a tram conductor, succeeded to lan estate worth £200,000; four Bristol artisians found themselves heirs to £350,000, the estate of a wealthy uncle of Brooklyn; and a German maid-of-all-work suddenly found herself a millionairess. Among other recent favourites of fortune have been Miss Wright, an American telegraphist, who is said to have inherited a round million from her aunt, Miss Oroycle; Miss Deed, a St. Louis salesgirl, was one of the heirs to ;iu otate valued at 0.Q00.000d01. ;an ex-telephone girl, in ■ the State, inherited a, largo part of ! her husband’s fortune, estimated at i over £2,000,000; and a German 1 dentist awoko one morning to learn ‘ that a Californian relative had left I him £1,500,000.