A MYSTERIOUS PAUPER.
There has just died at Warriugton workhouse a man, named Moses Woods, whoso residence as a pauper has been most remarkable. About nino years ago ho went to the workhouse very well dressed, stating that he was ill, and waa admitted. He took to his bed, and refused to give any particulars as to whom ho was or where he came from. As nothing particularly wrong could be found with him, there was talk of hia discharge, upon which he simulated illness, and never spoko for four years. He kept his bed until, alter a year or two, he became too weak to rise, and he was put on extra diet, with an allowance of wine, but when, at the end of four years, various experiments were made, and ia the belief that he waa shaming, hia wine, &c, were stopped, he found his tongue, and began cursing the nurses in a fearful manner. He has cost the union OTor .£4OO, and promised to make a confession aa to himself before he died, but failed to do so.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 131, 3 December 1881, Page 4
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181A MYSTERIOUS PAUPER. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 131, 3 December 1881, Page 4
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