With no faith jn. banks, a cab proprietor named Bradford, of Idle, in Yorkshire, who has just died, carried most of bis fortune about with him. He waa 84 at the time of his death and bad amassed a considerable sum of money, but resolutely refused to deposit any of it in a bank. He was known to have larpre quantities of notes and sovereigns in his pockets, and when a friendly policeman pointed out the danger of carrying: sq much money about with him. Bradford produced a swipte. of r«rolv9»i, wylng tlurt he yn» prepared to defend huaieli.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 13
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99Untitled Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 13
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