EL DORADO.
Woman Receives Settlement of £300,000 WASHINGTON, February 5. James Flood was one of those original forty-niners, as they were called, who found a gold El Dorado vein in California, and with George Hearst and Jim Fair, courted fame and fortune in other speculative fields. Flood died thirty years ago, but his San Francisco estate is still intact, ant. worth upwards of £3,000,000. Nine years ago a handsome woman named Constance May Gavin, wife of a Los Angeles bank clerk, aged about forty, presented her claims for twoninths of the residue on the ground that she was Flood’s illegitimate child. Defeated in Californian Courts, she steadily pursued her way to Washington, and obtained some recognition from the United States Supreme Court. To-day, the Flood estate attorneys announced that they were awarding her a settlement of £300,000.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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