A FORTUNE TOO LATE.
CLAIMANT TO £18,000.
DEATH IN GREAT POVERTY/ The pathetic death of a claimant to a fortune, on the day before , the arrival of a document > : from the ';■ Attorney-General, ! which ;is said to. have proved his claim,' ha* occurred at Sheffield. '■( ; Early last year a recluse named ; Frederick Greenwood died s at Colly hurst,S Lancashire, and ; it ;■ was subsequently discovered that he owned property in Manchester worth £18,000. There were 200 ■ claimants Co his fortune, but it.is- stated that no valid evidence was ; forthcoming except in the case of ah old culter named James Frederick Dungworth, of Sheffield, ; the man who 'has just died.' . < i;; For the i past • eight months : Duhgworth had been dying from consumption in greaf? poverty while streiious efforts were '-being' made to estabkih his claim. He has left a will expressing the hope that the fortune may ; fall to his sons and daughters and a sister. ' -I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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155A FORTUNE TOO LATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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