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Show Ex-'Curb Hopper' Becomes Heiress ' To 5 Million as Playboy Mate Dies SARASOTA. Fla, May If (UP Six months ago a "curb hopping" waitress today heiress to a $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 sstata. Xegai authorities said that Pluma Louis Abatiello Palmer, as the legal widow of Potter D'Orsay Palmar, the playboy scion of the wealthy Chicago pioneer family, would receive a large portion of bis estate. Palmer, M. died yesterday evening of Injuries suffered in a brawl at a barbecue last Thursday. At his bedside was his pretty young wife, his fourth, and his parents, the Honore Palmers, who have s magnificent mag-nificent estate nearby and who last December refused to receive their imi'i naw wvlfa - .. , . -4V -'. . SHE IS SLATED FOR THIRD OF $lS,t09,Mt Pluma Louise Abatiello Palmer and her husband, Potter D'Orsay Palmer, who died as the result of a brawl The main bulk of ths Palmer fortune is in the hands of ths elder Palmer and he was s vexed by his son's fourth marriags that, according ac-cording to the son, be deleted nil nam from his wilL But ths son had a one-third interest In the (15,000.000 estate of his grandmother, grandmoth-er, Mrs. Potter Pslmer, and it was this money which, legal authorities believed, will now go in large measure meas-ure to the poor girl who won the heart of a millionaire. The Palmers and the young widow wid-ow left the hospital together after Palmer died, but It could not be learnedlf death had changed the parents' attituda toward her. That they were leas cold toward her was evident, however. Last month shs sued her husband for separata maintenance and his parents for $300,000, alleging alienation of affections, af-fections, but "both suits were dropped when a reconciliation was effected. Investigate Brawl Authorities continued an investigation investi-gation into a brawl which interrupted inter-rupted a country barbecue near Bradenton last Thursday in which Palmer apparently received fatal injuries, but it was Indicated that no arrests would be made. Kenneth Nosworthy, a butcher's boy, told authorities that he had struck Palmer one with his fist after Palmer had attacked him with a beer bottle. Persons who witnessed the altercation said that Palmer had been the aggressor and had practically forced Nosworthy to fight. Ths witness said that after he was struck. Palmer fell over a bench, but Immediately got to his feet and gave no appearance of being seriously injured. Dies In Coma Palmar was taken to the hospital hos-pital on Friday, after a cerebral hemorrhage. Pneumonia, accompanied accom-panied by a high fever, developed. Ha became unconscious snd died in a coma. Early last December Palmer stopped his car at a roadside place where customers ars served sandwiches sand-wiches and aoft drinks by waitresses called 'curb hopeprs." The places are known in Florida as "juke joints." Miss Abatiello served him and on December t they wer married. |