FROM RICHES TO POVERTY

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1938, Page 8

FROM RICHES TO POVERTY

■ INHERITED £68,000 LONDON, August 6. Working as a sideshowman at the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, and patronised by visiting New Zealanders, is Mr. R. J. Tulloh-Hatchett, who in 1921 inherited £68,000 from his mother and lost it all seven years later. He is now almost penniless. His wife is an attendant at a shooting range. Mr. Tulloh-Hatchett lost his fortune in the crash of someone else’s enterprises, but in spite of his changed fortunes he retains a philosophical outlook on life. “It was sheer bad luck,” he said.i “If my investments had been more secure I should still have been hunt-1 ing with the Ledbury, racing my horses at Deauville and Chantilly, dining in fashionable places and entertaining rich and influential people. But I am not crying over spilt milk. I am more or less: penniless but I am earning an honest living. Once I won £5,000 in a single- day at Ascot. I hacked all six winners. To-day I have 1/9 to come back frpm a Cd bet.

And mighty glad I am to be getting the extra coppers.” Mr. Tulloh-flatchett was born near 'Barnstaple and educated at Malvern College and Brasenose. During Ihe W'ar he was a captain in the Lancers.