Show V ' V THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 9 1934 t ntel&iifn of Relatives ' and Lawyers Would Not Be Surprised o Find a 'Fortune iri a Hotel Room or Even in a ve ( vV Jt Cracked Tea Cup or an Old Shoe! i M Mrs Sarah Smith SroU lard the Eccentric Mil UonalresaFrom a Photo graph Taken When She Was la Her Prime Mmm -- —r kail V y - j &s tfSr aURING her long and spectacular lifetime' Sarah C Smith-Sco- llard— better known as Chics i go’s "Hetty' Green" many times accumulated a ast fortune in cash and se 0X3 curities and dwelt for yearly while wealthy like a woman from whose door the wolves of - & wwi “ jjM poverty never strayed very far Ever since her death two ago lawyers private de- -' 'years tectives and relatives havO fc4 quietly sought ths many and varied hiding places where the mysterious and sccentrie old woman might have left ' rolls "The mack - married millionairess skipped from hotel to hotel thronghont the United States and Canada secreting ft Is believed large parte of her 915000000 fortune in each hostelry” of thousand dollar bills This exciting treasure search With th!d considerable stake Sarah able to find out juat how many husbands When Mrs Smith got tired of a husextending to the four corners of the emband she and in divorced she She wed earnest or a secretary the legends about Others began bought investing outdoes into and Canada United States real estate in downtown Chicago and the ployed as secretaries or as officials in her say she divorced or discharged !h the matter of thrills even the sensacity rapidly one or another of the corporations she them handing each check for a large tional existence of Mrs frowth ofandthe mushrooming amount at the time of dismissal Two controlled tripled her investments It is estimated that she left- behind Mrs Smith as she was now known her no less than $15000000 tinder rugs also did very well by herself in the matin teacups bank vaults and behind se- ter of investments She had cret walls of the hundred boarding learned mining a great deal about this business houses hotelrand homes where she lived and also- - during her with one or another of her assortment from Jim Smith in California of husbands Only a fraction of the early days about her eccentricities soon bemoney— a mere million or o— has been gan to appear In the Chicago newsrecovered They told of her going from The search goes on and will continue papers downtown reel estate office to the her for months possibly years It seems wretched little hotel room where She almost as though the capricious and lived She cooked all her own meals and unique woman financie had planned all made her own clothes When any of her life to bewilder and distress her her business associates pointed out heiresses and heirs by secreting many it was rather foolish for a in that woman worth millions to live in so large portions of her great fortune the most unlikely places in cities miserly a way Sarah alwayi made from each other by thousands of the same answer: miles make “Nobody told me how-t- o One of (he Eceentrie MilIronically each time the fortune-humoney Now that I have it nobody lionairess’s Six Husbands ere become a little discouraged a few is going to tell me how to spend it" George Francis Scollard hundred thousand more is discovered in Frequently it is said ahe had Pictured With (Left) Chicago Seattle Hollywood or New large sums of money secreted in her York Montreal and various other room lying around on the table unTwe Friends These "finds" spur them on der the carpet under pillows and In places cracked tea-cuAt one time she had anew young men in particular The first skyrocket In the meteoric as much as $750000 in thousand dollar on reputedly g Yale bills all scattered in around her the room and enigmatic career of Mr football star and another’ while she a meal made of bacon meagre went Up when she was 16 years an officer high in the naval serand an egg old A pretty Immigrant from Galway vice were relieved of their secreIt was not that Mrs Smith felt any Ireland she left home end family at tarial duties with huge bonuses of the banks She simply liked that early age to elope with "Big Oskar distrust In 1925 when Sarah was well on in to have her money where she could see "Peterson a tali handsome Swede met and married George and feel it This desire was later to Her marriage to Peterson the first of it Francis Scollard a man about her own y lead the to scrtmble for but failure nix or more was a domestic eger- - He was poor but had a preposthe lumL shehad left behind her in a financial -- success for the little girt sessing personality The coupW went to over houses and hoteli all the United as who had coihe to the United States Bellingham Washington where ' in States and Canada Sarah Corbett “Hetty Green” holdMrs older Smith As her Chicago's ‘ grew The girl’s Irish family strongly amazed all who knew her by fortune-hunteail and of grew of the match but that did not ings purchasing a magnificent eswedages and of every degree began parking worry Sarah much The runaway tate From that time on ahe door her at this Curiously enough for was known to the world 4s Mrs ding took place in the lush decades so was who woman in parsimonious California that followed thi ’49 gold her d Sarah way of living waa very generous gush was her occupancy It men during ith friends her Peterson was wealthy but how soon of the Bellingham home that married— nobody el his their young ifter much of the $15000000 which marriage left him yet is unready this remarkable woman is beknown All that the investigators have lieved to have amassed was hidbeen able to learn about this period of d den The pair - reckless colleen theis that life her traveled extensively The days turned up in Chicago some time later wretched hotels in of living end founded there the Sarah E Peterwere definitely over for Sarah son Secretarial School on money ostenin some of the large suites and her by her husband thl sibly settled on with her husband she occupied Va d "Big Oskar” This money has recently been found In the early nineties and 8arah’s beauty While she was Mrs and intelligence favorably impressed Sarah engaged in one many of Chicago’s business men whom of her most spectacular adventhe interviewed in her efforts to obtain tures A small Soiith American ' lobe for her pupils country had qsfced her to beIt is belitved that Windy City finan-- come its queen While she was) ciers gave her market tips that shortly in the republic negotiating to enabled her to triple the value of her turn it into a monarchy ahe Real romance came Into investments returned suddenly to her hotel Sarah’e life again with the appearance ope day ' to find Scollard em in Chicago of James R Smith a former bracing her traveling Secretary pick end shovel miner who had amassed “Maud Harvey” whom he had a bankroll of Impressive proportions Late she learned engaged from silver and copper deposits Their this woman apt t ijve blossomed and bloomed but it wee former wife One at the Last Photographs Ever Taken The Late Reese B Brown only a' few hours before hie death sevJames R Smith Another Husband of tho Late BnsineSs eral yean later that Jim Smith married Mrs BusiThere followed a race beof the Brilliant Boaineu Woman Whose She and Ills Son by a Previous Marriage Woman Sarah: --With the dead miner’s son she ness Manager His Death tween Scollard and Sarah to Scattered Fortune Is the Object of the Shared His $1000000 Estate shared an estate valued at $1000000 There was about Bellingham Complicated the Quest Amazing Search r" OX S-SH Smith-Scolla- h After that she went to Seattle to live There she exhibited a penchant for opening bank accounts with $500000 cash She would quickly withdraw her money and put it into another bank From Seattle she moved in turn to San Francisco Chicago Portland Ore Los Angeles Denver New York and Philadelphia repeating her startling banking tricks as she went along In 1929 Reese B Brown an ' exrancher promoter and Florida real estate man became Sarah’s business manager Accompanied by Brown's wife it was claimed Mrs d in January 1930 removed nearly $2000000 in cash and bonds from the Metropolitan National Bank of Seattle—and disapSmith-Scollar- sep-arat- Smith-Scolla- rd cross-countr- -- rs Smith-Scollar- newly-marrie- good-nature- Smith-Scollar- Smith-ScoDard- OwrUM lilt KiBi rwtsnt d v vorce rd nt s $1500000 in told cash lying hidden there and both wanted to get hold of it Scollard won the race but in a civil suit involving $1500000 that followed he declared he had arrived there-t- o find tha gardener gone and a good deal of the money missing But this fortune wag not recovered and the gardener was never located Sarah finally dropped the action against her husband pocketing the diloss in return for a peared - Later et various times she was reported seen in the Canadian cities of Vancouver Calgary Montreal and Quebec She also lived in Hollywood for some time Sometimes she was with Brown and sometimes alone Then for more than two years nothing more was heard of the woman Relatives alarmed by her long and court mysterious absence obtained order to force Brown to reveal what he knew about the eccentric millionairess’s whereabouts But the hand of fate moved swiftly and relentlessly Brown had been ordered to appear before a judge on J anuary t9last Two days to that date he was found dead prior in his car a few miles from his luxurious home in Yakima Washington He had 'been killed in an automobile accident It was Brown’s widow who revealed the secret of Mrs dishusband’s appearance Examining-he- r papers she found among them silver urn containing the old woman’s ashes 'and death certificate issued in Montreal Investigation in the Canadiari met-- ' ropolis disclosed that she had died there TO July 24 1932 Browirhad kept the 4 new of her death from the world for a ’s year and a half Mis relatives assert that this was so he could manage her estate without interference Now that he )tOo were dead the hundred d hiding places of Mrs was more of a puzzle than ever Several weeks ago a search of the deposit boxes in the hotel where the woman eccentric was stopping when she suffered the bronchial attack that proved fatal brought to light $10000 in bills And the caretaker of her Bellingham home blinked on a recent morning when he discovered $500000 dollar bills hidden 'all in in a blanket lying in a cupboard That started the quest for the dead woman’s $15000000 in earnest For ‘ hordaoLinve- 'J?! tigators lawyers and relatives are com! ing all oi the American and Canadian cities where the remarkable Mrs lived at one time or another -- Smith-Scollard- ’s Smitb-Scollard- Smith-Scollar- ed Smith-Scolla- rd SrmdUiU 1m 1 ' X 1 |