CURIOUS PLIGHT
RICH BUT STARVING
EXILE IN NEW YORK
.NEW YOBK, 10th October
Heir of £60,000, Alfred Richard Hugo, formerly an electrical overseer in the British Navy, remained worklcss, homeless^ and hungry in New York, despite the possession of documents to prove his title. He was arrested with 40 other vagrants who were seeking shelter for tho night from the rain in a subway station and charged with disorderly' conduct by littering the station.
_ The documents showed that a solicitor, Mr. H. Bincombe, of Plymouth, England, had written Hugo that his uncle, John Pike, a South African diamond miner, had made him heir. Bocause, however, Hugo had taken out American citizenship papers, the British Consul refused him passage money for homo so that ho could collect ,his fortune.
Hugo said: "I am rich, but starviug just the same."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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138CURIOUS PLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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