£477 UNDER FLOOR
FINDER HOPED FOR REWARD LONDON, May 21. - While repairing floor-boards at a house in Byron-street, Leeds, Thomas Harrison Speight,' 53, a joiner, found an old tin box containing £477 in £1 notes. Hoping for a reward, he took
the box and contents a.way in his tool bag. •Speight told this stpry yesterday to the Leeds stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Horace wjjen he was charged With stealing the" money. Mrs. Rebecca Brooklyn declared that the money represented her life sayings.' ■ ■' . Mr. Marshall said he believed Speight’s story and discharged, him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 12
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