UNEXPECTED WEALTH
SQUANDERED IN A YEAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Times—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) ■ VIENNA, September 14.
A Russian labourer unexpectedly inherited £62,500, and immediately lived in the most expensive manner in St. Petersburg, keeping a yacht and racehorses. Within a year he had not one penny left. He gave a great revel, and on the following day applied for and obtained a job as a crossing sweeper at three pounds a month. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8526, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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