WORTH NEARLY £20,000.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 27 October 1914, Page 6

WORTH NEARLY £20,000.

GERMAN MISER’S COSY NEST EGG FOUND DEAD IN A CHAIR. IPib Peim Association.] Auckland, October 27. After living for years the life of a recluse in a small two-roomed house almost entirely bare of furniture and spending only a few pence daily fertile bare necessaries of life, there died in Auckland last week an old German named Theodns Oswald Lattorff, worth between £12,000 and £20,000. A tradesman called, and receiving no answer" to Iris knock, found Lattorff sitting in a chair holding a newspaper in both hands, dead. W 7 hen the Public Trust officials investigated his affair’s they found that he had left it fortune. There was a good deal of loose money in the house. Bank honks showed that a day or two before his death Lattorff lodged in one of the city banks three separate amounts—j one of £SOO, another of £IOOO, and a i third of £IBOO, a total' of £3380, There was also in the Savings Bank an account showing regular weekly pay j ments to the total of £4OO and in other banks. His hooks showed that he had investments aggregating £10,000.' There are also documents indicating, the ownership of various house pro-! pertios in the city, while he ir he-’l lieved also- to have owned farm' property and to have money invested in real estate to a considerable amount and a large quantity of mining scrip. It is believed that there are heirs to the old man’s wealth', the hank officials having some time ago received a letter from a young lady in South Australia claiming to he a niece of LattorfjE’s and asking for any information concerning her aged relative.