MONEY IN A STOCKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

MONEY IN A STOCKING.

FRENCH WOMAN'S ILL-LUCK.

Events are teaching French people every day that fhe safest place for money is a bank, provided that it be of the right kind. Thousands of people, however, still h:>de their savings in linen cupboards,, kitchens, or gardens, or else carry the money on their person. Even a woman's stocking when she is wearing it has proved to be no safe place. Mnie. Alice Arene, of Bordeaux, did not like to trust her money to a bank, nor to leave it concealed at home. She, therefore, carried her savings of £224 in notes, concea ed in one of her stockings, when she went out. On leaving a for-tune-teller, however, she slipped on the stairs, rippinj; open one of her stockings in the fall. She lay stunned for a few moments, and on recovering found that her store of banknotes had disappeared. Whether they had been scattered by draughts about the staircase or through open windows, or whether the whole store had been collected by some unscrupulous person is a question that has engaged the attention of the police.