Queen of Chinatown White Woman's Fortune

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 18

Queen of Chinatown White Woman's Fortune

Thirty years ago a beautiful white girl wandered into New Y r ork’s Chinatown and met there a young Chinese with' £2,000. She loved him, married him, and made £IOO,OOO out of his capital—but now he has gone to court to recover £I,SOO, for she left only £6OO to him, and the rest to her white relations. Annie Gilmartin was an obscure girl emigrant when she came to New York, but when she died six mouths ago she was known as “New York’s Chinatown Queen.” She married Chu Sui, the young Chinese, as soon as she arrived in America, and at once showed a genius for finance. She speculated successfully in real estate, and rapidly made a fortune for her husband, while she adopted the customs and religion of his race. Annie Chu Sui loved Chinese mysticism. Chinese doctors bound her feet, and priests of Confucious conducted services for her. Chu Sui gave her ten rings set with large diamonds, which she wore pa

her fingers and thumbs, arousing the admiration of Chinatown, and earning the name of “Diamond Ten.” She became as much an Oriental as any white woman can—but on her death bed she reverted to type. After her death it was found that all the property she had acquired was in her own name. It included two large buildings in Chinatown, £BO,OOO deposited in eight banks, and jewels worth £S,OOO. Her will bequeathed all her fortune to her sister, Mrs. Kitty Murray, of Queen’s Borough, New York, with the exception of £6OO, which she left to her husband. Chu Sui and her white relations brought an action in the courts, in the middle of which Mrs. Murray was found dead in her bathroom, with a bottle of poison beside her. The dispute over the will has now been settled, and the white relations of Annie Gilmartin Chu Sui receive all of her fortune except £I,BOO, which goes to Chu Sui in recognition of his original investment of £2,000.