NOT SO POOR AS HE LOOKED.
. STREET BEGGAR'S HOARD. Dies and Leaves £15,000 in the Bank. ' SAN FRANCISCO. October 27. Ah astonishing case of imposition has been bruoght to light by the death of an aged mendicant, Michael Sullivan. This man; came from Ireland to America 37 •years ajro; and ever since has figured in .'the’ streets of ’Frisco as a beggar. As'dier stood - at the corners year after year getting what he could out of the chariteblyi ;ajsgosed. ho was certainly a •pjtiahle-lookmg ■ object, his ragged .raiment 'ami,'.appearance- generally sug-gesting-jthol difiest distress. But SulliVan was not the povertystricken individual that he led people to believe ho was. He had doite exceedingly well during his, 35 years as a street cadger, and after his death a search of the room he occupied resulted* in the‘discovery that instead of being without a cent, in the world die had a fortune of not less’than £15,000 in the bank.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13521, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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156NOT SO POOR AS HE LOOKED. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13521, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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