DEATH OF A SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL.
The Florentines have had a sensation in the death of a singular individual who has been seen in the streets for the last 40 years, a Frenchwoman, De Flechier by name, supposed of low origin, but who proved to be the daughter of a noble in high military position under the Bourbons. Upon the announcement of her death the authorities took possession of her effects, and upon forcing open the drawer of a large box in her sleeping room found it full of sacks of gold pieces—every box and drawer contained quantities of gold, Government bonds, and bank-stocks, aud in her shoes, whose soles were of extraordinary size and thickness, layers of newly-coined gold pieces were found. The money, 600,000 lire, has been taken care of by the municipality, and the necessary measures for ascertaining the whereabouts of the heirs have been put in operation.— Sxo’m Times.
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Evening Star, Issue 3265, 7 August 1873, Page 3
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152DEATH OF A SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL. Evening Star, Issue 3265, 7 August 1873, Page 3
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