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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13735, 29 May 1913, Page 6

Antonio Romeo, who died recently at San Stofano, near Messina, carried on for fifty years the business of a moneylender throughout Sicily and even at Naples. Ho lived in a miserable style, and his neighbours concluded that ho was poor. After his death his relatives, tho "Central News" say©, demanded permission to make a search of his house, and the result has been tho disco-very of immense hoards in linmoo's dwelling.'- In a cupboard stuffed' with rags were Jargo bundles of bank-notes for 500 and 10(30 lire, and in I old chairs coir.3 totalling an amount of 300,000 lire, and Grovonr«icnt stock re--presenting- 400,000 lire. Bank-notes and money wore found in old boots, old clothes, and in pots. Tho total amount of the miser's hoard is stated to"be se-;-er;i.l million lire. Tho million-("aire-missr lived on a frugal diet of potatoes and salad, «nd drank only water.