£2OO HOARD IN HANDCART.
STARVING RAGMAN’S WEALTH Police searching the handcart of Tom Burns, a rag gatherer at Wrexham, England, who was in a local hospital suffering from the effects of want and neglect, discovered a hoard of over £2OO.
Burns had lived for years in a common lodging-house in the town, and it became necessary to go through his belongings after his collapse.
At the bottom of his tumble-down handcart, underneath a quantity of dirty rags, the officers unearthed a small sack and a small tin box. The sack was fml of g'ld, silver and copper coin?- The box wts packed with il and 10s notes, some of which were crumpled up into little balls. . Burns' woebegone ana miserable appearance had for many years past often drawn upon him Hte piry of householders, throughout the whole of East Denbighshire.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 5
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140£200 HOARD IN HANDCART. Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 5
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