RICH BUT STARVING
CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Heir to £(10 000. Alfred Richard Hugo, formerly an electrical overseer in the British Navy, remained jobless, homeless, and hungry in New York, despite the possession of documents to prove his titie. 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 bv littering the station. The documents showed that a solicitor. Air. H. Bin combo, of Plymouth, England, had written Hugo that his uncle. John Pike, a South African diamond minor, had mndc him heir. Because. however, Hugo hnd tpl r en out American citizenship papers, the British Consul refused him passage money for home so that he could collect his fortune. Said Hugo: “I am rich, hut starving just the same.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 7
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