HOARD OF £570.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 10

HOARD OF £570.

SURPRISE FOR POLICE. WOMAN APPREHENDED FOR BEGGING. If2K SS UIOfIiKOS «I.«0»»»S.. GISBORNE, July 8. The Police Force see so many and so varied sides of life that it takes much to surprise an experienced officer; but Senior-Sergeant Wade, who happened to bo in charge at the time, and the detectives and constables .at the Gisu »;> t:,~ iitntion received a shock borne Vohce station i y> ~ , on Saturday evening .that al agreed was "the shock of their l»'Cs. For some weeks past a middle-aged woman had been annoyingl residents of Koiti a suburb of Gisborne, by begging from door to door and numerous complaints were received. On Saturday evening the police located the woman and she was taken to the station, where it was intended to lav a charge of vagrancy. The woman denied the charge and said sae had ten pounds. Asked to produce it she said it was in her baggage, which proved to be an old battered article of black leather without a catch The detectives searched and found a tightly wrapped bundle of bank notes ranging in value from ten shillings to twenty pounds. These were spread out on the table and to the amazement of all were found to total altogether five hundred and seventy pounds In reply to questions the woman said it was her own money from a building society in another town and the information was found to be quite correct. For probably from four to five months she had carried the money about with her taking the viewpoint that the money was much safer in her possession than in the bank. The police sent the woman to the care of a charitable institution and to-day the money waa banked and the woman was dispatched to the care of relatives.