WIDOW’S LONELY LIFE

Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 3

WIDOW’S LONELY LIFE

FORTUNE LEFT TO CHARITIES. Tho story oi n wealthy widow s lonely life was unfolded when the police loimd Mrs Sarah Naylor, aged sixty-tour years, dead in her bed at her Inline in .Millsvv.vn street, South ’\arra, -Melbourne, early on -March U). Since her husband’s death in HH i bays Die ■Argus’) .Mrs -Naylor had lived a lilo of remarkable seclusion, inlet nipted only by the visits of a few intimate friends. The death of her only child, a daughter, about thin.y-thr--'o years ago, appeared to affect her lion Ith. Although her husband, who was a plasterer by occupation, had amassed considerable wealth, Mrs Naylor practically cut herself off from the world and her relations, and devoted her life to the collection of art treasures, will) which she had stocked her comfortable home. It is estimated that Mrs -Naylor has left about £ 18,DOB, the greater part of which is to he devoted jo charity, it, is understood that practically, all the metropolitan public hospitals will benefit, and that £5,(100 will lie given to tho Children's Hospital, in memory of her daughter.