LEGACY VANISHED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

LEGACY VANISHED

• Young Man Now Bankrupt Spent £IO,OOO in a Year ANTHONY DREW, of Westmorland, a young man now Irving in Dublin, inherited £IO,OOO a year ago. To-day he is adjudicated bankrupt and owes £857, mainiy, it* was stated, in Dublin Bankruptcy Court, to hotels in Ireland.

| FOR "a year he' has been living at these hotels, lie fold .Mr. Justice Maguire, sometimes ! Leing visited l>y a friend, Mrs. I Denise Winterbot torn, of the. (..arl- ! (on Hotel. London, who since June : had sent him £l2 a week to cover i his expenses. This is the story Drew told tlie Court before the case was adjourned. Sent Him £l2 Weekly , y, t |„, time of liis ;>< 1 jlm 1 i<■:i ri'ni in | i bankruptcy. in .addition to his dolus o! j lie owed tM(K)f) to Martin s Lank. j London —but this had b< en paid hy his , | mot her. _ I lie promised to lodge L'KKMI with the j I Oliicial Assignee to discharge his lialiili- | I ties. I'liis money ,he expected to get ; | from Mrs. Winterbot torn. | Shelbounie Hotel cost him £lO a : i week, and Mrs. Winterbottoiu had sent j | him the .Cl2 a week in repayment of an i advance to her of some €IOOO. ; 1 n reply to M r. Sherry. < Mficial As- I I wgnee, he agreed that lie often went on j i holiday w it h M rs. Wint erbot torn. j

Mr. Sherry: And the sum you advanced to her is rather nearer to £OOOO than I'HKKIr —That is not < orrcrt. Mr. Justice .Maguit'e: It is a Vpr , T serious business that he should lie round to respectable botch- and running up huge hills. ° Drew: 1 spent a great deal of monev in the Loyal .Murine Hotel. Kingstown I spent L'o(K) there. I think, and thev ■wore very pleased to have me there. Drew -aid he was aware that Mrs Winterbot torn was an uudischargefj bankrupt, but it was not his business where she got the money from to send to him. Mr. Sherry: You spend a great deal of money on telephone call, from Dublin to London.' -Not lately. £6 Phone Calls In one day sit the Loyal Marine Hotel vou spent £6 l'l.s on calls t« this lady!' V . Drew said his father. .John Drew, died in Lido. leaving L'fj' .000. ( ,t which' on his mother's deat h. h<» v oiild get a two-fifth share. •When Mr. Sherry applied to have the examination ' adjourned. Mr. Justice Maguiie -aid that it h. iiuMght the bankrupt'.- an-wering was nor' .smsfor-. tury he v. ould ud Inn: in prison right away.