A Freak of a Millionaire.
m i A millionaire recently got himself into a terrible scrape at Paris. He was taken up by the police for loaf- i ing about the markets, clothed in . rags, and so — well, let us call it absent-minded — so absent-minded as to be unable to give any account of himeelf. He had quite forgotten his name and address. This was] quite enough to make the worthy ' police search and strip him, when, j to their boundless admiration, they found in his pockets £1000 in notes and cheques to the amount of some £40,000. Up to tha present this millionaire in ra^s has not deigned to put off his fanciful incognito, but the sharpers about the Paris streets are in mourning over the haul they allowed to escape when they passed by, without closer inspection, the ragamuffin millionaire.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1898, Page 3
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142A Freak of a Millionaire. Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1898, Page 3
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