MONEY FOUND BY POLICE

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24368, 21 September 1944, Page 3

MONEY FOUND BY POLICE

COURT ASKED TO DECIDE OWNERSHIP (PA) WELLINGTON. September 20. Mr A. M. Gouldlng, S.M., was asked today to decide whether money found by the police, and whose owner cannot be found, becomes the property of the finder The case In point was a wallet found last April, containing 785 dollars, and duly handed In to the police office. Efforts to find the owner failed, and two constables applied for ownership.’ Before dealing with the facts of the case, the Magistrate was asked to decide whether an order could be made. The Police Act provides that ownerless goods and chattels must be auctioned. On behalf of the constables, Mr Mcltzer said the regulation differentiated between goods and money, and he submitted that the disposal of money was by common law under which the finder of the money was entitled to it as against the whole world except the true owner. The Magistrate reserved his decision. Venus of Milo Found in Chateau.— A British major, a member of a secret force of parachutists which was trained to organise the Mai uis six months before D Day, found the Venus of Milo, which had been J . ;ken from the Louvre and “lost” durh.g the German occupation. The statue was found with other art treasur in a secluded chateau. General de Gaulle is arranging for its restoration to the Louvre. —London. Sept. 19.