HOW MONEY WENT

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 2

HOW MONEY WENT

BANKRUPT HEIRESS £7,G36 SPENT IH TWO YEARS Thirty-year-old Mrs Molly Violet Carr, thrice-married £BOO-a-year heiress, told mo how, over the last, two years, she has been living at the rate ot £3,500 a year, writes a representative ot tho ‘ Daily Express,’ London. She stood in a dark corridor alongside Carmarthen Bankruptcy Court, where a few moments before her public examination had been closed. Enameltipped finger nails flicked the ash from her cigarette as she said: 1 have had a tough break. _Under my grandfather’s will J had a htc interest in £24,000, which brought me in £BOO a year after paying, tax. 1 had been enjoying every comfort, living, in a grand house, with plenty of hunting and sport. Now I am struggling along on £3 a week in a little flat in Brighton trying to pay back my creditors. “ It needs a bit of doing, but I don t want them to lose by my bankruptcy. If I had not been made bankrupt everything would have turned out all right in the long run. Three years ago 1 borrowed £3,500 on a mortgage,- And. took over Nantymwyn House, Rhandirmyn, near' Llandovery. 1 grazed y 0 was the amount I had to pay on putting the house and other property in order. It was a great hre there while it lasted. I had horses, and that meant I was happy. For two years I was Joint master of a local hunt. “ When the place was sold up I lost a tremendous amount of money. ■ All mv horses were taken. A mare for which I had been offered £l5O two months before was sold for £B. “ Now I am Just trying to cany oh, and my brother is helping.’-

During her examination, Mrs Carr said she was first married in 1928 ta Sir Francis Cook. They lived together for six months, and were divorced % year later. She then married Major M'Cartney in Cairo. They were divorced, and five or six years later she married her present husband, Captain Leonard Thomas Carr: Mrs Carr admitted gross liabilities of £7,140, of which £3,579 were expected to rank.