LIVED IN ABJECT POVERTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 103, 3 May 1929, Page 10

LIVED IN ABJECT POVERTY.

BUT LEFT £720 IN CASH. AN AUSTRALIAN" WOMAN MISER. (From Our Special Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 24. One of those extraordinary discoveries which are often made after supposed destitute persons die was made at Bathurst, New South Wales, this week, when the police searched the little sliack which had been occupied by Mrs. Louisa Walsh. Seven hundred ind twenty pounds in notes and silver, tied securely in an old sugar bag, deposited in a tin trunk under the bed used bv the old woman, was their astonishing find. The old woman had lived in the most abject poverty, and was in the habit of begging even clothes and food from her neighbours. The money found consisted of about £540 in notes of many denominations!, and about £180 in silver and coppers, representing obviouslv the accumulations of many years. Some of the not" were considerably worn and faded, and bore evidence of regular counting by the old miser, while ranch of the silver was tarnished by long disuse.