HAD A HUMBLE JOB.

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1203, 13 September 1927, Page 3

HAD A HUMBLE JOB.

PUT SUBSTANTIAL FORTUNE. A MELBOURNE WATCHMAN. Police investigations into the circumstances of a niglitwatchmau who was killed last week' in -Melbourne show that while lie held a humble position he was nevertheless a comparative rich man, judiciou investments having built him a small fortune rimnng into some thousands Gf pounds. He was unmarried, and .without any relatives in the 01a..0. lie appears. ’(W have been a mystery man of some kind? for the. mime under which he was employed was not his real name. Under still another name lie was regarded as an important customer at one of Melbourne’s banks, where bis .most substantial ’account was held.

He was knocked down and fatally injured in an accident aml when, his clothes were searched later by police lie was found to- have a cheque for £SU and a pass bool< in the mime be bad given at Hie bank. I'or Hie past ten years lie had acted as watchman at the building where be was employed at'the time of his death. He Jived in lodgings of an ordinary character, but friends have come to the pome since, and' informed them that lie had extensive business interests. in .Melbourne also is a liftman credited wilh owning a. substantial fortune, both in easb and property. He is a prominent officer in a wellknown Victorian order.