“MONEY TO BURN”

Opunake Times, 30 June 1939, Page 4

“MONEY TO BURN”

BANK PAYS £398 FOR ASHES OF NOTES Experiments by Bunk of England experts with ashes in two cake tins have brought a cheque for £398 to Miss Annie Edwards, of Morchard Bishop, near Exeter, whose life savings and those of her brother were lost in a fire recently, when four cottages wore destroyed.

For years Miss Edwards had used the two cake tins as her “bank, ’ putting £1 notes in one and 10/ notes in the other. The ashes were the remains of the money “roasted ' by th ; heat of the flames.

A policeman rescued the tins which, with elaborate precautions to ensure that none of the ashes were lost, wore despatched to the Bank of England in London by a Morchard Bishop bank manager. Experts experimented with the ashes and then informed the head office that they were satisfied the tins had contained notes to the value of £398. “The notes, as they were saved, wore merely placed haphazard in the cake tins, which I kept in a largo trunk,” Miss Edwards explained. “1 never troubled to count the money; I just put it in and took it out as required.”

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