£400 CARTED OFT AS RUBBISH.
' Madame Durand, who sells hot cakes ncai; tho ParK Bourse, apparently at good profit, as she had accumulated a hoard of oven £400, lived, the Telegraph says, in fear ofi burglars She hid her treasure with elaborate___care in a disused fireplace, behind old bottles and sardine tins. -Unfortunately, her daughter of 15, who was not in the secret, is a tidy girl. While hec /mother- .was away she cleaned out the fireplace, threw the rubbish away, put frestt pink paper in its stead, and showed her handiwork triumphantly to -her agJaoav ■mother when she came home. The dust* man had-' already bean round and carted tha rubbish .away. Tho police are still scouring every ragpicker's hovel in vain for tha ■ lost hoard, which was all in gold pieces."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 87
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133£400 CARTED OFT AS RUBBISH. Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 87
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