FORMER SWEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 5

FORMER SWEEP.

HEiR TO FORTUNE?

SYDNjEY PENSIONER.

APPEAL BY HIS SISTER.

Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, March 30.

A fortune is believed to be waiting in New/York .for a former chimney sweep, •JamesfHamion. now an invalid pensioner, who isi believed to be somewhere around Nydrupy. His sister, whom he has not seenj for .'•!!• years, is seriously ill in New \oijk. Through a friend, she wrote to the/' Australian Broadcasting Commission asking for a message to be broadcast describing Hannon.

Inmates of the Coast Auxiliary Hosjpital at Randwick heard the broadcast tend informed the A.B.C. that Hannon was a patient there. This James Hannon, however, was not the man wanted.

He said he remembered a J. Hannon ■who had lived in Kent Street, City, end following this clue, it was learned that this second J. Hannon -was an inmate of Lidcombe State Hospital.

This second J. Hennon was not the right one either, but he stated that he liad been born in the same street in Liverpool. England, as the real James Hannon and had grown up with him. He said Hannon hod come out to Australia in a sailing ship about the time of the Boer War. and later the two of them had gone chimney-sweeping together. He also stflted that Hannon had been in a Liverpool home until early this month, hut he did not know where he had gone from there.