Big Sum Found in Dead Man’s Home.
Mr Joseph Partington, proprietor of Auckland’s famous windmill built on an-elevated site near the city 97 years ago, was found dead about noon yesterday in his residence close to the mill. He was 83 years old, unmarried, and for the last three years lived alone. In the house money which will probably amount to more than £2OOO was found. While his solicitor was searching for a photograph at the request of newspaper representatives, he found bundles of banknotes in envelopes, tins and other receptables, mostly in locked bottom drawers of his dressingtable. Mr Joseph Partington was the son of the founder. A tradesman found his body slumped back in a chair in the kitchen. There were remnants of a meal on the bare table. His bed upstairs had not been slept in.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 4
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139Big Sum Found in Dead Man’s Home. Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 4
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