"TINY TIM" DEAD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 7

"TINY TIM" DEAD

Midget WhQ Lbved Girl In Circus fiRst iLlneSs fatal Twenty-tterfee-inch, high Tiny Tim hrho was.12 inches smailer thah the renowned Tom Thnmb of Barnum f'ame, WtlS piarihing his liftieth birthday pafty Nlicn he died at Hemel Hempstfead, Ehglahd, receiitly. Fiahning? Y ds, Tiny Tiin planned his daily life, and thought things Out first as ahy hbfmal gizfe ihhn would^dd. He #as Twarf in siatiiid but hot in braiiu He whs bdm ih Stbfekporf of average Sizfed jl^'eTts— &nd whfen hb did ndt grow he was examined iiy Sfbciklisis and foiihd to Be horinal' in every way except. sizd and weigiit, 24ib.v His real name was ilafold Pyott. Ho was- an orphhn ffphx the time he wai 12 yehrs bld, livfed wi fcli Mr Williaiti Bfeeleyj his cousin, and Mrs Befeley at their home at Bdinbujfgh. It was thferd that hfe* planned his travfeliing. Fbf 35 jmars Tiny Tiih tfavfelled to appfear ih pahtominie ahd eifeiis SiHeShows. Sitting in thfe crook of Mt Beeley'S arm, hfe traVfellfed all ovfer tli j British tsles, the Cohtinfefit atid t« Sotltli Africa. Fbr a iohg time clufihg His travels Tiiiy Toih was dreUkimg — just aS dther men do. ilrcamirig of the one Jove of his life. iie liad oiiiy dhe. She was an Irish lass a foot talj.er than Tiny Tiiii. He met lier at the Dublitt cifclis whdn he was-2i yehrs nld. But it was only a dream in ihe ftnd, and Tiny O'im rfemained a baohfelor and dcvoted his at tfentibti lb fijriiislliilg. I-Te fittdd out his quarters at 'Mr Bfeelfey's home with his oWii Tiilllpntian fiirhiturb. He liafl his dwn littles plates and silvei- spoons and torks And. again, like the uornia] mad, Tiny Tim was fonrl of eating. He had his favourite disli, fish, and he had his favourife drink — he liked a spot of rum — but he knew how to keep lit, and was never ailinrr. His hrst illness provp.rl fe "he his liist.