TEA=SHOP FRIENDSHIP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 10

TEA=SHOP FRIENDSHIP

STORY OF £500,000 LEGACY. A plate of scrambled eggs which a Liverpool waitress prepared for an eccentric old gentleman who could not decide what he wanted to eat began a friendship which is likely to result in she and her husband interring £500,000, a mansion in Richmond (Surrey) and two luxurious cars. Mr and Mrs Frederick Boyd, of Claremont road, Wavertree, told the Daily Sketch the story of how their acquaintance with Mr T. J. Thomas, a 72-year-old London business man, ripened and culminated in him announcing to Mrs Boyd on his deathbed in a London hospital that he intended leaving them his entire fortune. Since Mr Thomas’s death they have had several telephone talks with the executors, and are waiting official confirmation of their inheritance. “About three years ago, before I was married,” said Mrs Boyd, “I was a waitress in a cafe in North John street, Liverpool, when Mr Thomas came in. He did not seem to know what he wanted to order and complained that his stomach was upset. It was rather early in the morning, so I suggested some scrambled eggs.”