SMITH WAS LEFT FORTUNE OF £110,000.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18016, 29 November 1926, Page 1

SMITH WAS LEFT FORTUNE OF £IIO,OOO.

DIVORCED HIS FIRST WIFE, THEN MARRIED WAR-TIME TYPISTE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. and N-Z- Cable Association. (Received November 29. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 28. The “Sunday Express ” states that Alfonso F, Smith’s grandfather was Sir Frank Smith, who was associated in business in Canada with Lord Strathcona. When Smith came of age, he inherited £IIO,OOO. He owned racehorses and a luxurious steam yacht, and gave large parties. His widowed mother, who had an income of £IO.OOO, died while Smith was serving in the trenches in France. He first married Miss Ruth Wynne, a daughter of the former PostmasterGeneral of the United States, but this marriage was dissolved, and Smith then married his present wife, a wartime typist, whom he met in a lawyer’s office. Smith was found not guilty of the murder or manslaughter of John A. Derham, who was shot during a struggle for possession of, a revolver. Smith was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for haying firearms in his possession with which to endanger his life.