STARYING WITH £4,000.
0 PARIS, Dec. 8. For some days past an old man, living alone in a small room at the top of one of the high houses here, had not been seen by any of his neighbours. The door of the room was at length broken open, and there on the floor lay the old' man, unconscious. He was reduced to a skeleton, and evidently at the point of death from absolute starvation. Further investigations revealed hidden under the mattress a sum of £4OOO, of which, says the (Putit Journal, £I2OO was in gold. When he recovered consciousness at the hospital to which he was carried, the miser asserted with great energy that he preferred to die of hunger rather than touch ft penny of his hoard.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 4
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129STARYING WITH £4,000. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 4
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