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EX-CHORUS GIRL’S LUCK
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.
The late Colonel Jacob Ruppert, bachelor owner of the New York Yankees and of large brewery and real estate interests, made Miss Helen Winthrope Weyant, described as a former chorus girl ,the principal beneficiary in his will, filed for probate today.
The 71-year-old Ruppert left £60,000 outright to Miss Weyant, whose stage name, it was said, was Winthrope Wayne, together with one-third interest in trusts set up to handle the ball club and the residuary estate. No official estimate of the value ol the estate was forthcoming, but it was expected to exceed £6.000,000, in which event Miss Weyant would receive income from more than £2,000,000 in addition to the £60,000 gift. The other heirs to the ball club residuary estate, under the trust arrangement, were Ruppert’s nieces, Helen Ruppert Silleck and Ruth Rjla Silleck.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 7
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