AN UNLUCKY "FIND."
A late Engli-b paper says :— An upholsterer named Mager was charged at the Bristol Police Court lately with steaKug money. Shortly before Whitsuntide he and an apprentice was engaged in emptying an old mattrass, when Ma&er found in it a woman's nightcap, opening which he discovered a roll of bank notes to the amount, it is reported, of £1600. Mager soon afterwards left his employment, and '• lived like a gentle* mao. M I'he a^j>rebtic« told his employer becnrise Majrerjwouid not pay enough hush money. Th<> prisoner was retrianded, that t**.e owner of th* r oaattrass tmjSfot he souglit for.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 27, 16 September 1882, Page 3
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102AN UNLUCKY "FIND." Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 27, 16 September 1882, Page 3
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