CURIOUS PLIGHT
HEIR TO FORTUNE REMAINS SARVING IN AMERICA. .New York, Monday. Heir of £60,000, Alfred Richard Hugo, formerly an electrical overeesr in the British Navy, remained workless, homeless, and hungry in New York, despite the possession of doeuments' to prove his title. He was arrested with 40 other Vagrants who were seeking shelter for the night from the rain in a subway station and charged with ■ disorderly conduct by littering the station! The documents showed that a solicitor, Mr. H. Bincombe, of Plymouth, England, had written Hugo that his unele, John Pike, a South African diamond miner, had made him heir. Because, however, Hugo had taken out American citzenship papers, the British Consul refused him passage money for home so that he could collect Ms fortune. Hugo said: "I am rieh', hut starving just the same."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 359, 21 October 1932, Page 2
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