WHERE MONEY IS CONCEALED
" It is hard to tell where eccentric peop'e will not hido money,'' siil a detective the o'her day. " I was once sent f<»r to find the money of a man who had died euldenl/, and loft no visible trice o r his wealth. familf had made a careful systematic search I arrived. I lei rue 1 that he was not miserly, an 1 inferred that he hal not used any of those compl'cated metkids of onceiloient which are oae of the miser's elr'ef nharac^eris'ica.
" I found that his busireas I ok him frequontly from 1 and that he hid formerly been a niilor. I asked what room he s'ept in, and they 'all 'a'l ovor the hou^e,'ailing thit they had examined every placo iu which he ever kno.vn to be. I asked about his clothing, and insisted upon seeing them. So'nebody brought his garments in at lait, and very shabby-lotkin* they wer \ I went over th' ; m with >ut success until my eye caught the b ndin?. " ' He always kept them weU bound,' sai 1 his wife, ' siilors aro good sewer?.'
"The bin ling was wide, but we sorn had it off, and thsre we 'oun.l, foiled length wise and protected with oiled-silk, fou r te«n £IOO rotes and a core of 'five s. 1 A systematic search is often not as good as a flirt wd guess by an experienced p3rson.
"Ys, there ae men win co n .ceil wealth a vay from their home. Criminals almost always do it. Mid country-men will do it, but when they gpt old they are almost always sure to hide it near ahe spot whore tiny pass most of their time. I havj found money in the civers of old family Bibles, behind nvrrors, in the boredout legs of chairs, behind cupboards, nail-d tightly to the wall, in fa'se ceilings, balusters, pincushion?, in the linings of old hat?, in clocks, stows, and bronz} itnaqes, in vases with the bottoms inside covered with plaster of Paris, in black bottles v,eighted with mercury and marked poison, in canej, ai d ves'-linings, in [ otted salmon tins an! tin canisters, in crocked walls covered with wal!-pa:er, in 11 sorts of beddir.g and upholstery, and in almost every conceivable pl.ict 1 ."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1860, 26 February 1892, Page 4
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378WHERE MONEY IS CONCEALED Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1860, 26 February 1892, Page 4
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