BEIR IN WORKHOUSE

Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 3

BEIR IN WORKHOUSE

A sixtv-oight-year-old inmate of ono of the institutions of the Manchester Board of Guardians is now believed to be the heir to tlio £50,000 hoard of rash and securities discovered on the death of Miss Clara Alice Jones, the eccentric Manchester recluse, who had lived alone, surrounded by money bags, in a dilapidated house, in Jtico street, Liverpool road, Manchester, for, a number of years (says the Glasgow ‘ Herald’). His name is Higgins, and he has been an inmate at Withington for the last twenty years. He derives his kinship from the fact that Miss Jones’s mother, Sarah Watts, had a sister, who married. Higgins is stated to be a son of that marriage, and is, therefore, a cousin, on the mother’s side, to Miss Jones. Mr Wolstenholme, a solicitor, stated that dozens of claims to the fortune had been received from districts as far apart at Aberdeen and the South of England. Many of the claims were absolutely groundless. A pathetic feat’fe of the funeral at Manchester of Miss Jones was that on the coffin was only one wreath. A nnmlier of mourners included some of the dead woman’s tenants.