The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-12-21
STEWARDS LIFE
ROMANCE Barred
Speedometer Man Really Was
Terence 0'Brien, One Time
Clipper Of Horses:
ALSO WAS MINING pROSPECTOR
Litigation over $685., 343 Estate Lsft
by Manufacturer Leads to Bar
ino Of "FamiIy SkeIeton"- 81
Eccentric About Money.

disqualification over the So
257,34s estate left by the late John
X. Stewart, founder and president OF
the Stewart Manufacturing company
and the Stewart-Warner Speedometer
company, barred family skeleton
Search Of records Of the Surrogate
court In Riverhead, L. l., In which
one Of the two wills made by the
Chicago millionaire was filed, revealed
that his name was really Terence
O'Brien. Under this name he had been
q mining prospector in the West, al
ways without much success.
From prospecting O'Brien turned his
hand to clipping horses, following
county fairs. In Seattle he met Arthur
and Michael Conlon. Together they IN
vented horse clipping machine. This
contained flexible shaft, which served
as the basis Of future automobile ac-
cessOry appliances.
Soon Brings In Big Profits.
This shaft was patented for O'Brien
by lawyer named Stewart and soon
It began to pay large profits. 1t was
placed on the market as the John 4.
Stewart speedometer, the name OF
the lawyer furnishing part OF the
title and that Of race horse, John
f." furnishing the remainder.
O'Brien later decided to adopt as
his own the name Of the device ne
had placed on the market, and from
that time on was known as John h.
Stewart
With the acquisition OF his fair
fortune O'Brien, now known as Stew
art, left the West and moved to Chi.
cagO, introduced the speedOmeter and
soon his wealth grew to great proper
lions. He purchased residence at
a217 Sheridan road and bought man
sion at Center Point, L. l., to which
he later moved with his wife and two
daughters, Marion and Jean.
He was in his early forties when he
died. leaving an estate Of FIVE to seven
millions
Both Stewart and his widow, who
died nine months after him were &C.
centric in handling money. First q
clerk in the Office of the Speedometer
company discovered some deposit slips
on Chicago banks calling for $1,8OO,-
600 which 1t was not known that Mr..
Stewart possessed. This money was
found In six banks and turned into |
the estate. Shortly afterwards Lean
red II. La Chance, now chairman OF |
the board Of directors of the Stewart
Warner Speedometer company, and
trustee OF the Stewart estate, received
1 bill for $3.50 for the rent Of safety
deposit vault OF which he knew moth
ting.
4s "a Daughters Get Estate.
In the safety deposit vault $25OO0O
more was discovered. At another
time a suitcase which Mrs Stewart
who died In Aiken. S. c., had left
in hotel there was opened and $780,
600 in currency, in 5000 and $10,.
600 gold certificates rolled out. This
suitcase also contained $4,000 In
certified checks. The suitcase had
been carried around the country with
out more than the usual care.
The fortune left by Stewart was orig
jnally divided between his two daugh-
tiers. but Jean died October 10 last,
while still a child. Marion married
Robert B. Honeyman Jr., OF New York
City, and inherited the entire estate.
It was her action In filing, through
her father-in-law Robert B. Honey
man. a New York lawyer, suit charg-
Ing incompetence and general mis-
management Of the estate, that led
TO the discovery Of the romance OF
her fathers career,