The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-27
FIRST EDITION
A MIsERLY RECLUsE.
&1nlf a million Dollars Found In n TrunIs-Dis-
poaltlOn of the Fortune.

XIuIf n UIfNIIuU Dollars Found In n TTunk-DIg-
position of the Fortune.
TIE following particulars OF the death of the sngu
IL Jersey City miser, the fact Of which has been
|ready announced, will be read with interest We
lnd the account in the New YORK Times Of this
norning:-
on wednesday evening last, Lyman Allyn, an
ced boarder at faylor's Hotel, in Jersey City,
pund dead sitting in his chair in his ROOM His
cath was duly reported on the following morning,
bnt there were circumstances developed yesterday
hich surround his life and death with peculiar in
erest. His brother, Thomas Allyn, Of GrOton, Conn.,
n company with n sister, the only relatives of the
1leceased arrived yesterday and, with the permis-
ion OF coroner Burns, VINO is 10 mold an inquest
kwo diapidated trunks thet stood in the corner Of
their brothers bedroom, and in one of them were
found stocks and bonds, deeds ana securities Of
various descriptions representing fortune OF
&f6OO, 600.
4 His life during the last five years had been most
remarkable. he was man Of over seventy, and SO
X)Dfrm that he consumed half an hour or more in
roming down from his room to the dning-room. Yet
Rle lived upon the highest floor to money, and
Was never known when upon the streets to use
horse car, saying that they had the effect TO make
beope lazy, and he would not patronize them. He
anne from his room to his meals but once day, eat
ng the very smallest quantity OF the cheapest food
he sought no society, and would permit no person to
enter his room but the chambermaid, and she but
bnce week. While she arranged his room he inva-
daby watched her closely. To an observer the
room contained very little that was worth watching
Two old trunks, scanty wardrobe mace up or
ot bT2 Two 3as one wse e
shoes and boots, copy of Websters Dictionary,
lBlble, and medical book, were all that the room
kcontained, and its situation and interior desoate
Znees made it dreary abode The old man had lived
hene alone for nearly six years, declining all the
while to see any visitors, for, he said, they came
pDit because they thought he had money; that they
weJe Mistaken for he was very poor, and had great
dimculty In paying his board bills. o,oroo ., 1T.
Effects yesterday gave our reporter brief sketch OF
his life. He was born in Groon, Conn.,, in 1897, and
BRAS sent at early age by his father to work in
grocery store In New London. Finding that his em-
PIoyer was dishonest and that he used false weights
nd measures, the boy ran away and returned to his
fhome. He soon procured a situation in another
fstore, remaining there for number of years until
4 in 1897 he came to New York and engaged In bus-
1neBs as q commission merchant Becoming in
tereeted in stock speculations, under the advise
l lment and In partnership with Jacob Little Mr.
3Aliyn amassed a large fortune, which subsequent
Ispebuations did much to reduce. lie was bache-
{i0rand had for thirty or forty years been in some
Edeefee aycrse to all society, but his eccentricies
Weie not so marked as they were during the six or
seven years preceding his DEATH During his stay at
TaJDor's Hotel he was occupied entirely in looking
fr the value OF and the interest upon his bonds
stocks, keeping his business, howeyer,tn so great
ecy that not even the proprietor of the hotel
the faintest intimatlon that his guest was q
Rlthy capitalist His bills were paid with the
ehtest proInptltude, but beyond this fact no
ne n old ne man ae had a m fSr
ymdQnwhie, was entirely unknown, and many
SPECULATE ms were indulged in by his feow-boarders
confined to his garret. Wednesday afternoon the
bill collector took Mr.. Anyns bill to his room
Knocked received no answer, and could gain no
kadmttance He threw the bill into the room over
|the door, and went away. The day wore away, and
III was remarked that the old gentleman Was not so
prompt formerly in responding to the presentation
or his bill Mr.. Fisk, the proprietor, went to his
room, and receiving no answer to his calls, the door
was forced open, and the aged occupant was found
lfeless in his chair.
The examination Of the trunk and contents yes
terday disclosed the fact that the old owned
stock in many of the best paying concerns in the
country. He owned stock in all the principal rail-
roads In New jersey the Erie Railway, Atlantic and
Great Western, the Morris Canal and Banking Com
pany, and the New York Central. Deeds for large
amount of real estate in Long Island and in the
city Of Brooklyn, and pile of State and county
1 bonds were found. With these there was will,
dated fifteen years ago. bequeathlng all his property
4 TO his brother and sister.
The body will be removed to GrotOn, Conn, to be
Inferred there.