RICH BUT IN RAGS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 56, 29 November 1919, Page 8

RICH BUT IN RAGS

With- nineteen old stockings and three pillow-slips wound round his to keen him warm, he said, Leonard \\ inkier. an old and apparently penniless man was arrested on a charge of >agrane'v at Melbourne recently. At tlio Citv Court ho stated that lie had invested .MO in the peaco loan. Inquiries wcro mfldo, aikl liis stovv was suhmjuhintoil. He was discharged. Winkler,, who was Corn in Germany in ISSI, having lost n lot of t money that wns left to huu l»- his father, derided to go to America, where, he staved for about twenty years Ha is a landscape gardener, florist, and horticulturist. By good investments lio alimented his savings until he aceumuintmi' a small fortune. lie came to Melbourne in 19flfi. "If there had been no war I would have been worth .ElO.OflO to-day." he said. Although lie lost .1:110110 in "mining swindles" in Iho first Iwo years in Australia, lie made somo D'-ofitablo investments, which later relumed him a 'few thousands a year. W'lien war broke out he wis not naturalised. and in 1010 the Federal Government disnoscd of his shares, which realised £5500. Of the nroeeeos he received in.cash, and tlie remainder he_ invested in war loans in Ifltfi. When oitcsliolicd why ho wore such old clothes, lie said: "I have travelled the world Otico in New oik 1 saw two in on who were fiue.lv dressed killed by And thev only got a few cents. There, fore I dress as a tramp, a no' have no I'oar of aiivnne."