HOUSEMAID MILLIONAIRE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1930, Page 11

HOUSEMAID MILLIONAIRE

FORTUNE OF AN IMMIGRANT

FOURTH WIFE OF RICH BROKER.

HIS DEATH LEAVES HER MILLIONS

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

Rec. 10.30 p.m. New York, Jan. 2. A former Czecho-Slovakian immigrant chambermaid, who made beds and swept floors in the mansion of Frank W. Savin, a retired broker, at Port Chester three years ago, is mistress to-day of his £5,000,000 fortune as the result of his death from appendicitis on Tuesday. Mrs. Savin, who left servants’ quarters in January, 1927, to become her employer’s fourth wife, has at her command eight Rolls Royces and a staff of 20 servants, her former associates, and the right to call a palatial home her own, but how . long she will remain at ease in this queenly state is problematical, for a legal pot has started to boil with claims by former wives, cast-off children and others whom the old broker left in the wake of his kaleidoscopic 79 years’ life. Mr. Savin was head of a brokerage company in New York, and more than 30 years ago he bought a seat on the exchange for 5000 dollars. When he retired he sold it for 475,000 dollars. In addition to the millions he piled up during the palmy days of the stock market he held extensive tracts of Long Island real estate;