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Show Heiress Who Spurned Riches Rests in a Pauper's Grave LOS ANGELES. For 15 years, Harry Tennant, a millionaire lumberman", lum-berman", searched in vain for his missing daughter. Once, three years ago, he almost found her. But she sank out of sight again and he gave up hope. A detective who never gave up his investigation told . Tennant he knew where she was buried in a pauper's grave. Mrs. Janet Tennant McEvers, 36, heiress to five million dollars, died two years ago. Police said she had deserted a life of ease for the company com-pany of a Skid Row character called "One-Eyed Willie." He is now dead, too. Sgt. E. F. Holmes of the missing persons' bureau relentlessly tracked down the slim clews which led to solution of the mystery. Mrs. McEvers disappeared while a student at a music conservatory. She later was married and had a daughter. Her husband died In the war. Her child, now a college student, is sole heiress to the fortune. |