USED AS BANK
Man's- Wooden Leg
The unusual uso of a wooden leg a3 a savings bank was discovered recently at the Police Consulate, Vienna, Writes a correspondent in the "Daily Telegraph." Throe years ago a, Polish subject, Noah Goldberg, whose uncle is a Babbi in New York, died in a Vienna hospital. After his death a sum of 600 dollars (£120) deposited at his hotel was used to, pay the hospital and funoral expenses. The relatives knew that Goldberg had a considerable fortune, but all effort to trace it proved una-. vailing. The relatives requested a reoxamination of the deceased* trunks and clothing deposited at the Polish Consulate in Vienna. The search only brought to light 300 dollars (£60.)
Becently a Consular official named Wieder, who wears a wooden leg, was trying on the wooden leg of Goldberg with a view to buying it if he found it suitable. Ho accidentally touched, a spring disclosing a number of thousanddollar bills, amounting to the largo sum of 88,000 dollars (£17,600). The Consulate has informed the American relatives of tho fortune that awaits ;tiftiv iust.nK't.inrm.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 20
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184USED AS BANK Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 20
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