LIVED AS PAUPER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 17

LIVED AS PAUPER.

DIED WORTH £19,000. i ——-— HOUSEKEEPER GETS NOTHTNG. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, October 9. Known ae the "Mieer of Islington," Mr. John Thomas Wilmott, who for years ehuffled about the streets in old clothes, picking up bite of wood from the gutter, died worth £10,000. As he made no will and no relative can be found, the money will go to the State. Miss White, his old housekeeper, who served him faithfully for 15 years, enduring hardships because ehe thought he was poor, will get nothing. A local tradesman said: "I first knew him about efjfht years ago, when he retired from being a bank manager at Lewisham. He had previously been manager of a bank at King's Crose. "Hi« wife died about the eanie time, and with his housekeeper, a dear old soul and a wonderful worker, he locked himself up in that big house, half flf which he filled with old books, papers, tin cans, kettlee, all sorts of rubbieh. Ho wae certainly tight with hie money, but he got in a tremendous lot of milk for the housekeeper's pet She collected every stray animel e>«\ "ould. Wilmott looked after them, at all event*. When he became ill he was still mean—one Sunday when I wanted to fetch a doctor for" him Mies White told me he would not have one, as the doctor charged doobV on a Sunday."