A CHARITABLE MANIAC.
CAME INTO A FORTUNE AND GAVE MOST OF IT TO THE POOR. An extraordinary case of philanthrophic mania has come to light at York. Thomas Stead, of Stanley Street, inherited several hundred pounds from mother, and immediately began to send ananymouus subscriptions to public and charitable institutions and funds for the unemployed. He also personally distributed money lavishly to poor and unemployed people, and for days there was hardly a minute when some supplicant for assistance was not on his doorstep. He bought many copies of the File of Christ,” and gave them away. 'Alien removed to the asylum it «as louncl he was sane excepting fot his mania for helping the poor. His fortune is almost exhausted.
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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 6
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121A CHARITABLE MANIAC. Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 6
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