HIDDEN HOARD
SUPPOSED PAUPER REVEALED AFTER DEATH ADELAIDE. May 27. Although regarded with sympathy for manv years, because of his seeming poverty! a 74-year-old one-legged painter, who died on Saturday, left, according to, the result of police inquiries, bank deposits amounting to ,00.000. The man was Thcophilus William Cliudleigh, ol Annesley avenue. Norwood, who was widely "known as ••one-legged 'lornPass books and other documents relating to the man's hidden hoard, were found tied around his body under Ins shirt when he was admitted to a private hospital a week ago. No trace ol a will, nor of any cash, was lound when tiio man's two-room cottage was searched. Chudkigh's nearest, relatives in Australia are. believed to be two niece-;, one single, and one married, who live m Adelaide suburbs. Before the old man went, into a private hospital more than a week ago, he gave. £9 to a, neighbour to mind ifov him. Some of this money was used to purchase pyjamas for Chudleigh to wear in hospital. The remainder will be handed to the Public Trustee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 2
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177HIDDEN HOARD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 2
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