TIRED OF RICHES.
Leaving a comfortable fortune to his wife and four children in Brockton, Massachusetts, Edward Washburn arrived at New York, determined at the age of 57 to start business anew as a grocer's clerk for a wage of £3 a week. Mr Washburn, who was being sought by the police as a missing person, was discovered by the police in a Salvation Army hostel. He politely refused to return to Brockton, where he had built up a large business as a dealer in ice, and explained that he was tired of luxury and idleness, and wanted again to enjoy the thrill and excitement of winning another success. Before leaving Brockton, Mr Washburn said he had arranged that the income from his business be turned over to his family, and the only provision he made for himself was that in the event of sickness he would receive money enough until he recovered. "I'll have a place to sleep in and enough to eat," he told the police, "and with my work and ambition to get on I shall be far happier than in the years during which I have had nothing to do except spend money which came to be without effort."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2051, 4 December 1924, Page 3
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