FORTUNE IN U.S.A.
LONG BATTLE OVER. Wives Seek Millions for Children. ECHO OF 1932 MYSTERY. United T.A.-Electric Telegraph— Copyright) (Received 0.30 n.m.) NEW YORK, December 28. A message from Winston, Salem, North Carolina, states that another interesting development has occurred in the famous ease of the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Libby Holman, opera Ringer, whose marriage to '/.. Smith Reynolds, young heir to the. estate, was cut short by his mysterious death in .July, li>32, lias accepted for her infant son Christopher a sum of 7,000.000 dollars as his share in his father's fortune. Christopher is receiving 2,000,000 dollars lesa than his half-sister. The Heynolds settlement, is especially interesting ill view, of the fact that Libby Holman was acquitted of a charge of murdering her husband and then fought a long legal battle against, the efforts of Mr. Reynolds' former wife to secure the entire' fortune of 25,000,000 dollars for her daughter Ann.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1934, Page 9
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