WOMAN'S £20,000 HOARD

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 3

WOMAN'S £20,000 HOARD

GOLD FOUND jAFTFIt DEATH

While the premises at Le Betraite at, St- Queiis in Jersey, the property of the late Mrs May Hubert, ■were being cleared following a. sale, £20,000 was discovered secreted in various parts of fhe estate. Tim money, which was mainly in gold and silver coins, was removed in barrels.

Mrs Hubert, who died about two months ago, aged 92, was known to have had! a largo income, although «ho lived simply.

She was a', direct lineal descendant of Sir George do Carteret;, who was Governor of Jersey during the reign of King Charles H., and to whom letters, recently found, in a ref) drawer, were addressed in fJRat King’s dmifri.writing.