CHAMBERMAID BECOMES MISTRESS OF FORTUNE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 1

CHAMBERMAID BECOMES MISTRESS OF FORTUNE.

CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN MAID NOW WORTH £5,000,000 (United Press Assn.-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 2. A former immigrant, a chambermaid who made the beds and swept the floors in the mansion of Mr Frank W. Savin, a retired broker, at Port Chester, three years ago, is mistress to-day of his £5,000,000 fortune as a result of his death from appendicitis on Tuesday. Mrs Savin, who left the servants’ quarters in January, 1927, to become her employer’s fourth wife, has at her command eight Rolls-Royces and a staff of twenty servants, her former associates, and the right to call the palatial home her own. But how long she will remain at ease in this queenly state is problematical. For the legal pot has started to boil with claims from his former wives, his cast-off children and others whom the old broker left in the wake of his kaleidoscopic seventynine years of life. Mr Savin was the head of a brokerage company in New York. More than thirty years ago he bought a seat on the exchange for 5000 dollars, and when he retired he sold it for 475,000 dollars. In addition to the millions he piled up during the palmy days of his stock market career, he held extensive tracts of Long Island real estate.