A Miser's Death.
Melbourne, January 4. On Sunday morning an old miser named William Cleave was found lead in bed in a hut at Echuca. His wife, on awaking, found him dead beside her. The pair had been living a most miserable life for the past 30 years, subsisting on whatever they could pick up, and their residence was the picture of dirt and squalor. On examination of the hut by the police, it was found that the deceased was worth, in cash and property, close on ,£4OOO, all of which he has left to his son, a farmer at Weeweerup. — Post correspon- , dent.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 165, 11 January 1895, Page 2
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104A Miser's Death. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 165, 11 January 1895, Page 2
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