GIFT Of £4,000,000.
FORTUNE FOR WIRTH’S CIRCUS
FAMILY
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP ? IMFI T.l SYDNEY, A lay 12.
The Wirth family, who roof some members belong to tho well-known circus,, have inherited a huge fortune, four millions sterling, left by an unmarried- undo who died 1 recently in Chicago, whore he made a pile. The fortune will bo divided among descendants of the four brothers oi the millionaire. , One of the brothers left only one son, who is employed in a jewellery establishment in Sydney. He gets a million. • He has ten children. Philip and George, of Wirth circus fame, and three- married sisters, divide a million.
MRiS PHILIP WIDTH
[PRE3S ASSOCIATION TKTjBGBAMJ AUCKLAND, May 12 Some 20 years ago Philip Wirth. one of tho legatees of tho Wirth 101tune mentioned in the cable message to-dayj married in Auckland Miss Jenny Hodgson, a daughter of Air W. Hodgson, who died at Hamilton last Friday. Airs Wirth has been living at Ponsonby for some v ears past. Sho lias’ one daughter, who recently married a clergyman.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3830, 13 May 1913, Page 5
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174GIFT Of £4,000,000. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3830, 13 May 1913, Page 5
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