Fortune too Late
: Bearing tp a poor and aged Englishwoman the news of a,£10,000 inheritance, a 'messenger found her dead in her room in' Paris recently (states a French writer). . She w^s Mis« Minnie Gommon, for 40 years a milliner's hand in the employment, of a famous dressmaker. . Her origin, except for the fact that she was born in London, is unknown.. She went to^ France in 1883 nnd was : engaged; some years later by tlie^'tlrcismaker; 5 Six years' ago the nrm'Jßranted; her a pension and sho retired to live, in her little room at Courteyoie, a; Paris suburb. Her fellowiworkers 'iayiithat :Bhe, never spoke of England ps;of,'laving any family' there. The letter she never read contained an intimation :pf. the of a block of flits^*Bu^sl&»::Gornmbni; penniless in death, was even buried at the expense o| her former employer.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 9
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139Fortune too Late Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 9
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