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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11583, 28 July 1923, Page 13

£3,000,000 WILL ROMANCE A WOMAN'S GRATITUDE. j An astonishing story of a former in- [ terpreter at Bow street Police Court having been left the . vast fortune of an American millionairess, who made a will in his favour icur months after meeting him in a Pome hotel, has just been made public. Captain H. L. Zeitun, a modern soldier of fortune, whose career is as romantio as that of any character in fiction, is the man who is said to have had this amazing stroke of luck. He is 6aid to have been left an amount that has been estimated at as much as £3,000,000 under the will of Mrs Julia Stone Woods Davies, the daughter of Dr. William Stone Davies, the millionaire banker of Missouri, who died about eight years ago. Captain Zeitun, who is an undischarged bankrupt, states that if and when he actually comes into possession of the money, His first care will be to repay his creditors with interest.’ very romantio is the story of how ho is said to have been made the legatee of the wealthy Mrs Davies. In January of last year he was in Pome, and there met the lady who subsequently made him the beneficiary under her wills. Seized with illness' and a stranger to Italy, she was in an awkward plight, when Captain Zeitun pro Sered his services, secured the sick woman the best possible medical attention, and saw her nursed iback to health and strength. Grateful for his services, she offered him a post as her secretary, and four months later, when in London, made two wills in h« favour.