WINDFALL FOR PAUPER.
MISIERILY WIDOW’S FORTUNE. BROTHERS. SHARE £.50,000. LONDON, June IS. William; Higgins, who, since 190 S, has been an inimia.te of the Withington Workhouse, Manchester. and his brother Henry, a prominent London businessl man, will share the £50,000 left by Mrs. Clara. Jones, their first cousin. “f .shall repay the Manchester authorities for maintaining me for the past IS yearn,” 'said Willi am, who i.s 6S years of lage. Henry, who is 66, is the managing director of a well-known firm. His daughter married a man who recently received a title. Mrs. Jones was a. Manchester widow, aged 74. She refused; help when, covered with ili.msy i’ag,s, .she lay dying of pneumonia in her vermin-inlested home. The sum of £3OOO was in securities and £-100 in, silver was found in two bags under the flooring.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 July 1926, Page 6
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137WINDFALL FOR PAUPER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 July 1926, Page 6
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