PROM RICHES TO PENURY.
FORTUNE SQUANDERED.
LABOURER SPENDS £62,500.
NOW .SWEEPS A CROSSING.
By Telegraph Press Association Copyright.
St. Petersburg, September 14. A Russian labourer in 1912 unexpectedly inherited a fortune of £62,500. He immediately began to live in the most expensive manner in St. Petersburg, keeping a yacht and racehorses.
Within a year he had not one penny left, and with the last few hundreds he gave a great revel. He applied the following day and obtained a job of crossing sweeper at £3 a month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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