MISSING HEIRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23326, 19 October 1937, Page 10

MISSING HEIRESS

FORMER "CHILD WONDER” NOT HEARD OF SINCE 1932 Famous a generation ago, when she was regarded as “ the most talented child in the world,” an Englishwoman is now sought throughout the United States as an heiress. .j She is the former Miss Winifred Sackville Stoner, of whom nothing has been heard since 1932, when she wrote to relatives from Los Angeles, California. Miss Stoner is said to be a beneficiary of the estate of her uncle, Dr John Sackville, of Highbury Park, Kent, a relative of Lord Sackville, of Knole, Sevenoaks. Her uncle, Mr E. H. Sackville. a wholesale grocer, of Washington, Pennsylvania, is trying to find her through notices inserted in American newspapers. He states that he has received details of the estate, which is said to consist chiefly of bonds, the value of which has not been estimated. . n _ Miss Stoner, if alive, is now 35. To the pre-war generation she was known as an infant prodigy. She was born with teeth already cut, and when 12 months old she talked in monosyllables. At five years' she wrote verse, books, magazine articles, had a working knowledge of mathematics, had memorised many of the classics, and played several musical instruments. At nine she passed an American college examination, and at 12 she graduated from a university, could speak nine languages, was listed in America’s ’* Who’s Who,” illustrated her own magazine articles, swam, rowed, boxed, played baseball, rode horses, cooked, and drove her own C3 When 19 years old Miss Stoner married a man described as Count Philippe Clinton de Bruche. This marriage ended in divorce, as did that to her second husband, Louis Human, of New York. Her third husband was Earl Winston Harrison. _ . Miss Stoner’s mother, Dr Winifred Sackville Stoner, who died in New York six years ago, won a reputation as an educationist _in America. She urged boys and girls to marry at 18 and 16, and encouraged girls to propose.