HERMIT IN A CITY
GUARDED BY DARK BLINDS A Sunday Express correspondent recently "interviewed" Britain's strangest " hermit," who lives in one of Liverpool's most thickly populated areas. He has never been known to speak to anyone. The hermit is Mr. Edwin Humphreys Trapnell. Ho jumped into the news against his will because the London Gazette officially announced the annulling of his bankruptcy because all his debts had been paid in full. The home of Mr. Trapnell is a threestoreyed villa, with a neatly-lcept lawn in front. Every window is covered with a dark blue blind. The correspondent tried to ring the bell. It had been disconnected. The knocker was stiff with disuse. After a time an upper window opened. A man with .a heavy brown beard looked out. "Newspaper man?" he echoed. "I do not want to talk to a newspaper. I am a private individual. I do not want to be a publio one." Down .went the window —and down went the dark blue blind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21781, 21 April 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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