£2,000,000 RAIN OF GOLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1922, Page 6

£2,000,000 RAIN OF GOLD.

A regular shower of riches has descended on “The Gold Girl,’’ the name given by her friends to Mrs. Marian Stewart Honeyman, daughter of the inventor of the Stewart Speedometer, since her father’s death three years ago.

When her father died Marian, already married to a well-to-do man, received the residue of the estate, only a small sum, says the Daily Mail.

A year later a clerk in the Stewart Speedometer Company’s office discovered among the files bank deposit slips showing that Stewart had over £300,0(70 deposited in a Chicago bank. This sum went to Marian as residuary legatee.

A few months later her guardian found among some old papers a receipt for the payment by Stewart of the rental for a safe deposit box in another bank of which there was no mention in the will. This proved to contain bonds worth £60.000, which also went to Mar-

in July, IftlO, Marian ordered the loft of her late mother’s house to be cleared out. On going through the rubbish the servants found a battered suit case, formerly her father’s. Inside were £125,000 worth of securities.

The climax came -when her young sister died. As next-of-kin Marian now benefits to the extent of another £1,000,000. The golden rain has brought her in all over £2,000,000.