BURIED £80,000

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 2

BURIED £BO,OOO

GOLD COINS IN SO BONES BERLIN, Oct. 22. Six persons who were tried for digging up and stealing a portion of buried treasure worth £BO,OOO were condemned to short terms of imprisonment ranging from three to six months by an Aix-la-Chnpelle court yesterday. Dr. Prym, head of a business firm, and his family had amassed £BO,OOO in gold coins, the greater part of which they received from Holland. Either through fear of invasion or lack of faith in the banks thoy decided to bury it. The money was placed *.n 80 zinc boxes and buried in a forest at night. That was in 1923, and two years later the Pryms decided to dig up their treasure. They did a lot of the work themselves, but because of the fatigue they engaged a forester and a clerk to help them. Let into the secret as to what the treasure was; these two dug up one of the boxes and divided th*?j money among themselves and a fowl friends who had kept watch. I