A WOODEN LEG AS A MONEY BOX.
j A curious and amusing scene was 1 witnessed recently at. Battersea. A man with a wooden leg was walking | ; up Battersea Rise, when the wooden | leg caught, in a grating and became; fixed. The unfortunate man gave a wrench, with the result that tin* leg snapped in two, and the man tell to I the pavement. To the great surprise j of the pedestrians, a number of gold; I and silver coins rolled down the pave- : ment, and subsequent, invest igat ion | showed that the man had used his ; ; wooden leg as a money box, ba.v ing, j ' in Hie thickest part of it. a .-mining- j lv devised aperture, with a small door. The incident created great a- ; imiseinent among the onlookers. As ! 1 .soon as possible a eub was chartered ; , and. after having been banded bis; : sav ings which were collected t ogethei , i |,hj m he was removed to his |
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Lake County Press, Issue 2145, 22 November 1906, Page 7
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