Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1915 — FORTUNE FALLS TO FIANCEE [ARTICLE]

FORTUNE FALLS TO FIANCEE

Pennsylvania Girl Inherits $2,400,000 After Marrying Another Man. Punxsutawney, Pa. —Mrs. Fred Smith of this city, formerly Miss Mary Hadden, has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at $2,400,000. It was bequeathed her, together with ftis home, by Harry Riams of Buffalo, who died April 26, 1914. Raims and Mrs. Smith, then Miss Hadden, were engaged to be married. The wedding was set for May 30, 1914, but Riams was then dying. His will, which has just been made public, leaves the bulk of his estate to his former sweetheart, but she cannot get possession until she is twentythree, three years from now.