TAXI-DRIVER'S WINDFALL
REWARD OF ABOUT £SOOO. A man who until recently was a poor taxi-cab driver in Milan has become the proprietor of a fortune approximating £SOOO because he found in his car and returned to the police the bag containing jewels valued at £IOO,OOO lost by Mrs. Ann Murdoch Coleman, the New York actress. For nearly 48 hours the jewel-case lay unseen in the taxi-cab, the driver of which had gone off duty for the week-end. When he returned to work he discovered the jewels and immediately took them to the police station. Distracted by her loss, Mrs. Coleman had returned to Rome before the recovery of the jewel-case and spent a frantic two days before news of the find reached her. Italian law requires that a reward of 5 per cent, be paid to the finder in cases such as this. The.taxi-cab driver, therefore, is assured of about £SOOO.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3373, 3 October 1931, Page 7
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151TAXI-DRIVER'S WINDFALL King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3373, 3 October 1931, Page 7
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