CURIOUS PLIGHT
RICH BUT STARVING EXILE IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, October 10. Heir of £60,000, Alfred Richard Hugo, formerly an electrical overseer in the British navy, remained workless, homeless, and hungry in New York, despite the possession of documents to prove his title. He was arrested with 40 other vagrants who were seeking shelter for the night from the rain in a subway station and charged with disorderly conduct by littering the station. The documents showed that a solicitor, Mr H. Bineombe, of Plymouth, England, had written Hugo that his uncle, John Pike, a South African diamond miner, had made him heir. Because, however, Hugo had taken out American citizenship papers, the British Consul refused him passage money for home so that he could collect his fortune.
Hugo said: “I am rich, but starving just the same.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21781, 21 October 1932, Page 9
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138CURIOUS PLIGHT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21781, 21 October 1932, Page 9
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