WINDFALL FOR TAXI-DRIVER.
REWARD OF ABOUT £SOOO. A man who until recently was u poor tnxicab driver in Milan has become the proprietor of a fortune approximating £SOOO. because he Mund in his car. and returned to the police, the hag containing jewels valued at £IOO.OOO lost by Mrs. Arm Murdoch Coleman, the New York actress. For nearly 43 hours the jewel-case lay unseen in the taxi-cab, the driver of which had off duty for the weekend 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 five per cent. !>e paid to the finder in cases such as this. The taxi-cab driver, therefore, is assured of about.£sooo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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151WINDFALL FOR TAXI-DRIVER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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