Although regarded with sympathy by the people-of Adelaide for many years, because of his seeming poverty' a T-year-old one-legged painter, who led recently lett, according 10 the Fesult of police inquiries, bank deposits' amounting to £10,000.
Pass books and other documents relating to "one-legged Tom's" hidden hoard, were found tied round his body under his shirt when he was admitted to a private hospital a fey weeks ago, No trace of a will, nor of any cash, was found when the man's two-Toomed cottage was searched. One-Yegyed Tom had no relatives in Australia and before he went to a private hospital he gave £9 to a neighbour to mind for him. Some of. this money was used to buy pyjamas for one-legged Tom to wear in hospital.
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