A Miser's Death.
4An inquest wi>s recently held at Wells, Yorkshire, by ihe country coroner, on the body of Richard Scurrah, blacksmith, uged 68 3 r ears, ■he deceased, who lived in a hovel near the villag-e, not having- ( 'een seen for some dn} r s, the house was broken into by the police, who found hiir dead in bed. On the premises being* examined, upwards of £3000 wa« found upon a beam in the kitchen, and mortjra^e deedd to the value of several hundreds of pounds were also found in nn old chest. As the deceased had no relatives, the whole oi the property will g-o to the Crown.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 3
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110A Miser's Death. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 3
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