GOLD-LINED CORSETS
A curious position has arisen following the discovery by a Plymouth ragpicker of £20 hidden in an old pair of corsets. The corsets were one of half a dozen pairs collected among hundreds of other articles during a tour of the city by the ragpicker, who held an impromptu auction sale in a back street. He sold this particular pair" for 2d. On unfurling them the buyer noticed an inside pocket secured with a safety-pin. The ragpicker opened the pocket and found inside 20 onepound notes, which.he promptly handed over to the police. The notes, issued within the last ten years, were not consecutively numbered, and apparently had been hidden for a considerable period. The points that arise are: To whom do the notes belong? To the person who sold the corsets to the ragpicker, to the woman who bought them from him, or to the ragpicker himself? I
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 31
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151GOLD-LINED CORSETS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 31
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