FORTUNE DISAPPEARS
Formerly Rich Man Leaves £5OOO London, January 2. Major James Archibald Morrison, of the Grenadier Guards, for some unaccountable reason, left only £5OOO instead of £2,000,000, at which his fortune was estimated when he died in October. The testator’s uncle left him £2,000,000 in 1900. The testator lived as a country gentleman, and had a palatial home at Kensington Court. It was supposed that he kept his expenditure within his income. The founder of the family fortunes was the testator’s Scottish great-uncle, who came to London with the traditional sixpence, became a drapery shophand, married his employer’s daughter, and founded a warehouse company.
FINED AS MENDICANT
Man Who Inherited £20,000
London, January 2.
Charles William Channaw, 63, a Camden Town artist, who lost a big city business after his father left him £20,000, was fined 5/- at Hampstead for mendicancy. He possessed sixpence, two boxes of matches, and a note from Bernard Shaw scribbled on the back of a sketch which Channaw had sent the famous playwright: “If you can draw like this why sell matches?” Channaw had been offered £4 for the sketch, but demanded £l5.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 9
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189FORTUNE DISAPPEARS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 9
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