Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
MISSING HUSBAND
LEFT S540,O)O
Opening Safe Deposit Box
verifies 100000 Loss by
"La Sale st. 'Hetty Green"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. Wash. January 10
Receivers for the estate of Mrs. Sarah
Smith Wilbur SScoalard tonight had
recovered several hundred thousand
dollars from the financial wreckage
of the latest matrimonial venture OF
the "Hetty Green OF La Sale Street.
bun they also verified predictions that
a safety desposit box which once con-
tanned a million dollars in securities
would be found emptied of any Vaiu-
ables.
Securities worth 1859, 900 were found
deposited in bank here for safe
keeping, and bank accounts of $780,
900 and $4,000 were found to be
intact despite fears of Mrs. Scotland
and her attorneys that her entire for
tune had been appropriated by her
missing husband, George Francis
Scotland
Her safety deposit box contained
only worthless papers and a magazine,
as John F. Dore. attorney for Scol-
lard, had prophesied.
ScolIard Still Missing.
The whereabouts of Scotland remain
ed a mystery John F. Dore. his
attorney. disclaimed knowledge of his
clients present address. Dore was
quoted as suggesting Scotland might
be en- route to Europe by way of
Quebec, but he asserted his opinion
was based entirely on guesswork.
What action could be taken against
Scotland was undecided today. Dore,
who was engaged by Scotland by radio
while he was on his way here from
Buenos Aires. asserted Scotland has
done nothing Illegal. Mrs. Scotland
had turned over the administration of
her estate to her husband after their
marriage in ST. Louis, in 1925. Dore
said and civil action to recover was
Mrs. Scollard's only hope of getting
her money back.
Elmer f. Todd, attorney, TO whom
Mrs. Scotland radioed to untangle Ter
financial affairs when she discovered
her husband had left her in Buenos
Aires, estimated Scollard had obtained
at least $3.50. 900 of Mrs. Scotlard's
wealth.
Will Appeal TO officials.
Il intend to bring the case to the
attention of the authorities at once.
he said
Investigators employed by Mrs.
Scotland said $4,000 worth of Orien
tai rugs had disappeared from her
Bellingham, Wash. home. Nineteen
thousand shares of stock in the. Hecla
Silver-Lead Mines. valued by Mrs.
Scotland at 100000 also have van
ished, as well as thousands Of dol
lars worth" of Jewels.
Mrs. Scotland. who won the
sohriquet Of The Hetty Green of
La Sale Street." as a result of real
estate operations in Chicago, which
Melted her fortune. received large
holdings of the Hecla stock from
her first husband. James E, Smith.
who died in Chicago 90 years ago,
soon after their marriage. Her sec
ond husband was Ralston T. Wilbur.
wealthy San Francisco jeweler.
whom she married in 1915 and di-
vorced year later.
Wife Gets Injunction.
In addition to the appointment of
receivers Mrs. Scotland has obtained
injunctions preventing her husband
from further disposing of cash and
securities deposited in San Francisco
and Seattle banks. Scotland also is
restrained from leaving the State
until the estate is settled.
Meanwhile newEpapermen located
Mrs. Maude E. Harvey of North
Edmonds, Wash. who, Mrs. Scol-
lard maintained in court, brought
the Scollards' extended honeymoon
in South America to AN abrupt end.
Scollard's departure followed a quar-
rel over Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Scotland
said.
Mrs. Harvey, who was known to
her neighbors in North Edmonds as
a former wife Of Scotland, denied
allega tons made by Mrs. Scollard.
Her statement is not true" she
said. She'll have to. back down. /
don't know anything about it,