MONEY UNDER A BED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

MONEY UNDER A BED

HOARD OF £175 HOW THE BILLS WERE PAID The story of a man of 82, -who kept £175 in gold and notes under his bed ana gave his housekeeper 13s 6d a week or domestic exposes, was told at the PoUC Court at Wincanton, Somerset, recently. Annie Elizabeth Lemon, the housekeeper, was accused of stealing £154 trom her employer, James Burt, of Chai Horethorne, over a period of years. Mr. Burt said that he put 100 sovereigns and £75 in notes in a box years ago, and he never looked at it u lately, when there was only about W left The housekeeper, who was in tears, said that Mr. Burt gave her only 13s oo a week, which was his pension, on w ■ to keep house. SherJhad to take the mo j from time to time to pay bills. •• , The chairman of the bench told Burt that he had learned his lesson, a advised him to put what was left in. n bank. In the circumstances Lemon won be bound over for two years. . Mr. Burt said he did not thmk « was keeping the woman short o and added that ha would take her bacju They left the court together*