OLD MAN'S ECCENTRICITIES.
« WOULDN'T REMOVE HIS CLOTHES. London, Juno' 22. Some remarkable disclosures were mado yesterday at an inciuest into the death of an old man who earned a livelihood as an artist. Tho deceased was G5 years of age, and lived at Paddingtoir, where he led tho life of a recluse. Ho was of eccentric habits, and occupied a room, from which he had never emerged for several years past. Another of his many peculiarities was his aversion to taking off his clothes, which, it was shown, ho had not removed for many years. He used to sav that, it was too much trouble, and that it gave him a terrible sensation to take off his coat. During the timo that lie was in hod suffering from congestion of tho lunes. to which his death was due, he painted a number of pictures and sold them all — gldflW ''Sua,"-
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1790, 1 July 1913, Page 6
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150OLD MAN'S ECCENTRICITIES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1790, 1 July 1913, Page 6
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