Labourer Inherits £BO,OOO
A mother and her two daughters, from Pontymister, near Newport, Mon., leave London Afrport next week to fly to a fortune. When they land at New York— Mrs Emily Hitchen, Gwyneth, 7, Margaret Rose 3-—husband John will meet them.
And John Hitchen, till last December a humble builder’s labourer, has just inherited £BO,OOO from a cousin at New Bedford, Mass. .
In December he went to investigate the inheritance. He did not know then how much it was. But now he has written to his wife: “Come as soon as you can.” With the letter came the fare. Said Mrs Hitchen: “I can’t realise what it means yet. We had hardly even heard of the cousin, , Miss Laura Mitchell. , “John has been on the dole in the past. Now he owns a 17-roomed house. It will be our home.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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141Labourer Inherits £80,000 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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