LUST OF GOLD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1929, Page 5

LUST OF GOLD.

MRS MEYRICK’S RISE TO AFFLUENCE. £27,000 PROFIT FROM ONE NIGHT CLUB. OVER-CONFIDENCE LED TO DOWNFALL. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Sim Cable). (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, January 30. Newspapers this morning give startling figures of Kate Mcyrick’s fortunes, amassed in ten years in association with night clubs. It is stated that she contributed to ex-Sergeant Goddard at least £IOO per week. In 1919 she was assisting her husband, an Irish doctor, to run a nursing home in Ireland. Site left him, with eight young children to rear on fifteen shillings a week. In a few years she was able to invest £27,000 from one (dub alone. She sent her sons to Harrow, one of the famous Public Schools, and her daughters to Rocdean and Girton. Two of the girls married peers, Lords Kinnoull and Do Clifford. Her income in 1928 was estimated at over £IOOO a week.

Mrs Meyrick’s secret service was equal to Scotland Yard’s. She employed cx-dctectives in the disguise of various street callings, to give warnings of raids. She became over confident in admitting strangers to the “Forty-three” Club, which led to her undoing. \