BESIEGED BY SUITORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 9

BESIEGED BY SUITORS

BOIDITCTJARD HIKED ;; SAN FBANCISCO, Aug. 1, r A -millionairess, Miss Ami Cooper ■Slewitt, has been forced to employ a ■ teftyguawi to keep would-be suitors from jJwr San home, where she itfWaits the hearing of her J3IOO.CCO maim•Jte #uit 'against her mother. '" More than 10,000 letters of proposal %iVe jeaehod her siricn the suit, was Jfilecl last January. She still receives Nearly 100 a day. . From Perry (Iowa) a college youth '•writes: "I wonder how a man can be tin love with a girl ho has never seen, ytit 1 know 1 love yon."

'A Chicago Svidower. says: "Ann, l«*»y, I r <SMi't Sttjp ithinking of you. I want you for my wife moro than anything in- the world." . An airplane pilot in Johnston, Pennsylvania, told Miss Hewitt that, parachute jumping would .provide her with a'.'great JuWe. Another swain said he needed 'home, love, iiffediOn, Ho . would supply the first three if Miss Hewitt wbufcl the -fourth. A San Franciscan insisted that Miss Hewitt Was "the sirl of my dreams." With all these Offers of love, happi ness, marriage, Miss Tfewitt, who is 22 years old, remains without a single boy friend. She is afraid to encourage one because she could never be sure he Wto not after her .money. Ifiss Hewitt alleges that her mother, Mrs. McCnfter, had an operation performed b"n hor : to deprive her of a chance of motherhood. In that case her £2,000,Oo&'fortune would go to Mrs. McCa-r----teh\