A MISER'S HOARD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 6

A MISER'S HOARD

OLD GERMAN'S DEATH IN AUCKLAND. ID7 ToltßXttph-Prcoi Aixxilatlon.) Auohland, Octobor 27. Aflor living for years tho lifo of a recluHo in a small two-roomed house almost entirely bitro 0/ furniture and spending only a foiv penco daily for bare necosoarius of life, thoro died in Auckland last weok an old German named I'hcodus Os-.viild Lattorff, worth between twolvo thousand and twenty thousand pounds. A tradesman called, and rerocoiving no answer to his knock, found Lattorh" sitting in a chair holding a nowspapor in both hands, dead. When tho Public Truet officials investigated his affairs they found ho had loft a fortune. There was a good deal of loo.io money in tho house, and bank books showed that a day or two before his death Lattorff lodged in one of the city hanks bhreo separate amounts—ollo for £500, another for £1000, and a third for £1800, a total of £,')')0(). There wero also in a savings bank account deposits showing regular weekly payments to a total of £■100, and in other banks his books showed ho had investments aggregating £10,000. 'J'hero nre also documents indicating the oiynership of various Jionso properties in tho city, while he i< believed ako to have owned' farm property and to have money invested 111 real estate to a considerable amount; also a largo quantity of mining scrip. It is bejioved there aro heirs to the old man'a wealth, a bank official having some time ago received a letter from a young lady in South Australia claiming to be a. nieco of Lattorff's, asking for any information concerning hor aged relative.