A FRENCH MISER.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 3

A FRENCH MISER.

A man known, a« ''Father Daniel," but wlib-se re-al name was Jean Baptiste Rou'teau, died suddenly the other day in a gipsy caravan in which he Jived at Coiirbovbie, just outside Baric. He was 88. A key which the police found in the old man's hand unlocked a strong box in one of the Parisian banks, and this box was found to contain £20,000 in .gold, bonds, and shares. For 20 years or more he had earned his livelihood as a professional .beggar, afid had , concealed ,^the fact that in 1908 herhad-'inherited a fortune. Hecame from « good'family. '■" ,■-■■■/