FORTUNE ARRIVES TOO LATE.
POOR WOMAN'S DEATH. A fortune thai- came too late was tbe tragedy revealetfbr the death of a poor ; 71 years old Irish woman. Miss Minnie Gominpn, who was found dead in a small room she had occupied for some time in ibe Paris suburb of Courhevoie. On :he floor lay an ucopeted letter from her Paris lawyer asking her to call about an inheritance of some £SOOO of which she ■was the beneficiary. Miss Common, who lived the lite of a recluse, had not been seen for some days, and at last the concierge, alarmed, notidied the police who broke open the door and found her lying dead, apparently from heart failure. The dead woman had been jat a well known Paris | establishment for nearly 50 1 | been pensioned of? a ■ t]j ß t I Little was known a bruit her « e J^ ed to i sl'e borD . 1B -~d few if any j hare no relations ?)aj . !he? *for» j mends. t.iea .rp heJ . {artW 3*. 1 jr ton tbe- Of P- : Sioii secrecy, decline* t* j giatemect oa the ciaM-fiT.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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186FORTUNE ARRIVES TOO LATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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