CINEMA GIRL FINDS £20,000.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 5

CINEMA GIRL FINDS £20,000.

PARCEL OF BONDS UNDER A SEAT. LONDON, March 1 During her first day’s work at the theatre a girl cinema attendant named Miss Mound, of Bath Road, Cheltenham, made a remarkable find. Looking round the building—the Winter Gardens Picture House, the Promenade. Cheltenham—after the audience had left, she noticed a parcel beneath one of the shilling seats. It appeared to be a bundle of letters, but on examination in the manager’s office. The parcel proved to contain American Railway Bonds to the face value of 100,000 dollars, or, roughly, £20,000.

Nobody noticed the person who left the bonds behind, and up to a late hour last night they had not been claimed. The find was made on Tuesday night. LEFT BY AMERICAN?

“ There are a number of Americans living at Cheltenham,” Mr Edwards, the manager of the picture hours, told a “ Daily Chronicle ” . representative last night. *’ and the race meeting may have brought others down here.

** On the other hand, the bonds mayhave been left behind by an Englishman or Englishwoman. “ The documents, which were simply confined in an elastic band, bear a name upon them, but no address. “I am naturally not divulging the name, because of identification purposes. ” It seems an ordinary English name, however, with no American ring about it.” Miss Mound will be entitled to a substantial reward from the owner.of the bonds. In the meantime they have been handed to the policy.