TRAMP WHO GOT £50,000
WENT BACK FOR R.RTDE
NEW YORK, April 27
Robert Hall was a tramp —just, n tramp, dressed in rags, wandiiTOd round America, working here mid there for a crn.sl of bread. One day he arrived in St. Joseph, Missouri, did odd jobs about the house, fell in love with the beautiful ♦laughter. Then Robert Hall went away. He went back to St. Joseph the other day and called again on the beautiful girl, Constnrico Williams.
"You. were kind 1o me when I was in rags," he 1 old her. "Now 1 am wealthy. Will von marry me?"
He said his real name was Angus Gallagher, tlrat'i he was the son of a steel-mill owneh' who had left, him £50,000. "1 wanted to earn my own living during thjc bad times," lie said. Mr. and Mrs.. Angus Gallagher left St. Joseph on tlieir honeymoon to-dnj.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 2
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