AN UNEXPECTED FORTUNE.
FOR WORKHOUSE INMATE. A STRANGE SToRY. The London "Daily Sketch says that William Higgins (H_i, who has been an inmate of the Withimiton Workhouse. Manchester, since 190*. will share in the fortune Clara Jones (74' left when she died in seeming poverty in March. Higgins -us a first cousin of the woman. "I shall repay the Manchester authorities for maintaining tne for the past eighteen years," he said to an interviewer. Higgins' brother Henry, aged _6, is a prominent London business man. and the managing director of a well-known firm. His daughter married a man who recently received a title. Tiie woman, Clara Jones, a widow, died early in March, and was found clad in vermin-infested rags in her home in Manchester. Of the _oO.UOO she left. £3000 was in securities and £400 in silver was found in a ba;r in the house. She ilied of pneumonia, having refused attention.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 9
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153AN UNEXPECTED FORTUNE. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 9
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