LIFE SAVINGS BURNED

Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 4

LIFE SAVINGS BURNED

THROWN OH THE FIRE Picking up what she took to be a heap of litter in a spare room, Mrs Stanley Worksop, the wife of a working man at Brighton, England, carried it downstairs and threw it on the tire. A relative from Australia was expected on a visit, and the room was required for his accommodation. When her husband Alumed from bis work, Mrs Worksop profoundly informed him that the room was now ready. To her surprise she saw a look of consternation creep over his face. “What have you done with those papers that were under the bed?” he asked. “Burned them,” said Mrs Worksop. in the papers were notes to the value of £l2O. Mr Worksop bad withdrawn monev from a savings club where be worked because be was changing his place of employment. He had intended hanking it next clay. Two days later the relative from Australia arrived. He informed Mr and Mrs Worksop that since he had been away he had made his independence. Mrs Worksop afterwords related the sequel:—“When he heard of our misfortune,” she said, “ be promptly wrote out a cheque for £2OO, and gave it to jny husband.”