HUNTED HEIRESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1927, Page 8

HUNTED HEIRESS

“WON’T BE ROBBED. The “Daily Mail” representative found Lady Houston, wife of the shipping magnate who left about £7,000,000, taking desperate refuge from money hunters in a lonely shooting lodge at Badenoch, one of Britain’s loneliest and gloomiest fastnesses. “At present I want to be a hermit, and live in the hills,” said Lady Houston. “1 have dodged all the people who have designs on me and my money, though if 1 had complied with the sacks of begging letters my fortune of £7,000,00 would have already been more than spent. People a,re still conspiring against me, but I am not going to be robbed of a single shilling.’

Explaining her offer to the Treasury voluntarily to hand over the £3,000.000 death duties on the estate, Lady Houston said: “It was done on a sudden impulse. I made up my piind like a flash. My greatest solace is that my action may do a national good.” The reporter then inquired of Lady Houston the meaning of the words, “died mysteriously,” which appeared on a photograph of her husband’s headstone.

She replied that recently she had discovered telegrams which pointed clearly to strange events before her husband’s datb.

“Ecclesiasticals,” she added “at first objected to the inscription, but I was able to give convincing proof that it ..was justified. It cannot be discussed publicly yet, however.”