BUSH FOR FORTUNE.
HOTEL RECLUSE'S WEALTH.
SISTER GETS IT ALL.
LONDON. March 10. | A rush of prospective relatives hoping to share a recluse's £45,000 estate was stayed to-day by the discovery of a 19-year-old will leaving the property to his parents and his sister Ellen. As the parents are dead, the sister inherits everything. The recluse was Henry House, a retired Anglo-Indian who lived for years at the Charing Cross Hotel in a cheap room. He dressed shabbily and had meagre meals. He had only lis when he died. As he never tipped the ( staff ignored him as poverty-stricken. The inquest, however, revealed the fact that he possessed an income of £2000 a year. At the coroner's request the newspapers gave publicity to the facts 6o as to attract the notice of relatives. •' - ' Numerous inquiries and , visits followed, many persons seeking to prove a relationship. The sister Ellen, who lives in Manchester, camo to London and identified her brother, and almost simultaneously a Bristol solicitor announced that he had unearthed a musty will in the terms already given.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18356, 23 March 1923, Page 9
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178BUSH FOR FORTUNE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18356, 23 March 1923, Page 9
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