OLD LADY’S HOARD

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1939, Page 9

OLD LADY’S HOARD

£l.OOO FOR DAUGHTER. Hundreds of pounds have been found in “hideyholcs” all over the tworoomed house in Langlands Street, Dundee, which was occupied by a 93-year-old widow, Mrs. Ann Cox. Mrs. Cox died in the house in apparently poor circumstances. Shortly before her death she called in a solicitor, who asked her if she possessed a bank book. She replied that she did, but there was nothing in it. The solicitor examined the- book and saw Mrs. Cox had £2OO standing to her credit. She explained she had' not been near the bank for 30 years.

She added that she had “some bits of things in ‘hidey holes’ ” which she wished to collect and hand to him. The solicitor called again, and was given a big parcel to take to the bank. It contained £4BO, of which £lBO was in silver and £7O in old “Bradbury Treasury notes. After Mrs. Cox’s death, a neighbour found another parcel, which she handed to the solicitor. It contained £357, mainly in notes and tied into small bundles. Altogether, the fortune which has come to light amounts to over £l,OOO. It is bequeathed absolutely to Mrs. Cox’s only daughter, who lives in Canada. Recently the daughter has been sending her mother money.