RECLUSE’S £113,000 BEQUEST
■ro i:r-:i>r<-i-: xatioxs ori'it. LONDON. IJeceinher 3. By the will of a man who. al. the beginning of the year, went to Slay in a house in Bristol, paying 27/0 a week' for his board and lodging, the sum of Cl 13.SUH will be devoted to the reduct ion of the National Debt. He was Mr. Albert John Grave, a bachelor without any near relatives, who died at the age of 79. Hts estate. lias been valued at .£156.773. nor personalty .£ 15t>.(>S9. on which duty <>t £37.772 lias been paid. Apparently Mr. Grave was a man of secretive habits, and rarely spoke to anyone about his affairs. He lodged ai ihe hoiiso of a Mrs. Nicholls, in Clarence Komi, and spent most, days in his bed-silting room there. ()i-casiona Ily ho wen) out for lunch. His landlady thought that probably he had only just enough money tn live Upiill.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1939, Page 2
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