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Man of wealth collapses into hunger in Brooklyn hospital
Charles William de la Poer Beresford, once a wealthy iron manufacturer with Albany area properties, is hospitalized in Kings County after a period of near starvation. He claims he was robbed of £6000 in England and used borrowed funds to return to the United States. A lawyer's associate and Congressman John McCrate corroborate his identity. He had no home, no relatives in the U.S., and hid his plight from former friends as he faced severe poverty.
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