AVARICE AND RAGS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 20

AVARICE AND RAGS

WOMEN BEGGARS WHO ABE ElOa

Now and.then a beggar is heard of in America who has money in. that bank, owns real estate and maintains' an automobile. But such are usually o£ the male sex, states the "New /York; Times." Only the other day there -wa»; reported the case of a beggar woman' in Paris who left a fortune of 2,000,00$ francs. And other women in, Europei' have been known to lead this double i life. . '" ' ." '-■.■■■

Thus in Saaz, Bohemia, a woman ofr; 70, named Mikuleiska, was found in-! sensible on the floor of her apartment; Sho was wrapped in nothing b-.t ragS and was obviously iv the last stages of starvation. She was conveyed to a hospital, where she died a few hours later. Her neighbours made it known." that for some time she had subsisted on crusts and scraps; yet it was found on investigation that she possessed a fortune of 100,000 kronen and that she. had apparently starved herself to aeath through" sheer avarice. From Berlin is reported. another case. Dwellers in the same building ; complained that the smell proceeding from one of the tenant's, rooms .was intolerable.. Thn police accordingly, wont thither and when they opened, the door a woman was found literally wallowing in filth. . Yet in the strawmattress which served as a bed were found 30,000 marks in gold, 4000 marks in silver, 42,000 marks in Government bonds of the war loan and a savings bank book Bhowing deposits of 116,008 marks. - " "'