RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 8

RETURN OF THE NATIVE

i AN IRISHMAN'S .£lO,OOO. ■ DUBLIN. June 23. I Early this morning a Civic Guard found a man wandering in the streets : of Dundalk, and invited him to the barracks. The man accompanied the guard, and remained a few hours. He told the guard that he was 76 years of age, had spent fortysix years in America, and had only just returned from there. The guard pointed out io the man lhal his <-o.il seemed very bulky, ami a>!.<"| Hh’i cause. "You'd l><- surprised." exclaimed the wanderer. am! opening his coal he look out. from pockets ami linings rolls of American $lO bi".:, and I placed them on the barrack-room table. When counted it was found that altogethei he had <£lo,ooo worth in these American dollars secreted in the linings of his coal and trousers, in his pockets ami about his person. The guard asked him for an explanation of his great wealth, and the old man explained that he earned his money hard in Du? States. "Yon know what happened to the; hanks ’.here," he said. "People who ' left their money in were glad to get 1 1 dollar for every 100, because so f many banks crashed. I didn't lak” < risks like that. 1 have been through i

all the Wall Street crashes and all the bank crashes in the States, but they didn't steal a dime of mine. I carried my money with me all the time, and I never lost a cent, and that’s why 1 don’t put the money in banks.” After a good deal of persuasion the man agreed to accept the guard’s advice and put the money on .deposit iu a place of safety.