CHILD'S £2,000 "TOY."
SITTING ON A DOORSTEP PLAYING WITH CHEQUE FOR TERRITORIAL MONEY. A child, aged three years, was found one morning last month ou a doorstep playing with a cheque for £2000, intended for the weekly pay of the Notts and Derby Territorials, camping at Clumber. Nottingham.
The cheque was sent by the Army authorities, and along with other letters was delivered In the letter-box of the Capital anil Counties Bank, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, addressed to Lieutenant Tompkins, regimental treasurer and manager of the bank.
Shortly after the postman had delivered the letters Mrs. Charles Pashley. wife of the landlord of the Tiger Hotel, Wirksworth. saw the little daughter of a travelling showman on tbe doorstep playing with the cheque, which she had obtained by putting her arm through the apertures of the letter-box.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 17
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