GERMAN CLAIMS HOARD FOUND BY BOY SCOUT.
DISTRUSTED BANKS. SO BURIED IT DURING WAR,
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.?
(Received February 3, 1.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 3. Herman Thiel, who has just returned from Germany, claims £213 which was found .by a Boy Scout in the shape of sovereigns and half-sovereigns in a bottle buried on the shore at Sirius Cove, Mosman, in October last. The treasure was handed to the police.
Thiel says that he withdrew his money from the banks in 1915 and buried it for safety, as he mistrusted the banks. Last year, he tried to find the spot, but sewerage works had disturbed the landmarks. He dug around for weeks, fruitlessly. He then sailed for Germany.
Three weeks later, a Boy Scout un earthed the hoard.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18985, 3 February 1930, Page 11
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