CHANGE OF FORTUNE
CHAMBERMAID TO WIDOW OF MILLIONAIRE
(Rec. January 2, 10.20 p.m.)
New York, January 2.
A former Czecho-Slovakian immigrant chambermaid, who made beds and swept floors in the mansion of Frank W. Savin, a retiree broker at Port Chester three years ago, is mistfess today of his five millions sterling fortune as the result of his death from appendicitis on Tuesday. Mrs. Savin, who left the servants’ quarters on January, 1927, to become her employer’s fourth wife, has at her command eight Rolls Royce cars and a staff < f twenty servants, her former associates, and the right to'call the palatial home her own. But Low long she will remain at ease in this queenly state Is problematical. for a legal pot has started to boil with claims by former wives, cast-off children, and others whom the old broker left in the wake of his kaleidoscopic seventy-nine years of life. Savin was the head of a brokerage company in New York, and more than thirty years ago he bought a seat on exchange for 5000 dollars, and when he retired he sold the seat for 475.000 dollars, in addition to the millions he piled up during the palmy days of the stock market He held extensive tracts of Long Island real estate.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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