A Workhouse Mystery
HLmaa who for the past two years an inmate of the Eltham house, under the assumed Lowai'd," has just uly from heart disease. He by birth and education J an, and his conduct while In had been most ex- 1 He spoke Hindustani, ' with fluency, and acquainted with own account was of good time he was in fortune. in India as Company's ih. a pension. 1° 8 ' hi 8 or " investments his pension, unfortunate in specuthe amount he received. lie was seized with which incapacitated him and, coming home, he at several watering places, became destitute at Folkstone. to have exhausted his and he had no other resource an order for the workthe relieving officer. At he was elegantly dressed. and bearing were always dignified. He refused when offered him, and horror of dying a pauper. concealed his name, his he said, that he ex-. to come into a small estate, and not like it to be known that been an inmate of a workhouse. death his linen was found to be with an earl's coronet, and he Mm left a will, but no due to his Kdentity.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 61, 10 November 1887, Page 3
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191A Workhouse Mystery Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 61, 10 November 1887, Page 3
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