WEALTH IN RAGS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11451, 27 February 1931, Page 4

WEALTH IN RAGS

WANDERER AYITH £853

FOUND IN STARTING CONDITION.

NOAY IN TOLAGA BAY HOSPITAL.

ltcceiu-iv a- middle-aged man, or decidedly ’ pictui-esque appearance ira- l.irought before the Police Court at Gisborne on a charge of vagrancy. A search revealed that he had £OO in Comnionwealth bank-notes in bis ]K»ssession and, after being remanded for medical examination for a few davs be was discharged from eustodv. When before the court, the mail stated that he had no recollection of his name and was generally verv hazy as to his recent moyemciits.

On Sunday last the man set out up Oil- Coast and was eventually picked up. in a starving condition, by a motorist- who took him to the police station at Tolaga Bay. The police, alter an examination, sent him to tho hospital where he has been for the past- two dys. Yesterday morning, in rcplv to ouestions,, the mail stated that lie was far from destitute and in proof of his assertion produced £l2 in Commonwealth notes irom under his pillow of his bed in the hospital. Taking a hint from other remarks by tho wanderer .the authorities searched his clothes and thero made the astonishing discovery of a further £S4I in Commonwealth notes. This large sum was wrapped in a piece of newspaper and secreted deep inside the lining of Ms coat. __ The inonev is now in the custody of the police and the hitherto supposed vagrant is still in hospital.