HIDDEN GOLD.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

HIDDEN GOLD.

MLSKU.S AND THEIR SECRET HOARDS.

flVn a man was carrying upstairs . a old chest of drawer s for two elderly who had just moved from Watto Brighton he suggested taking #Jt gome ol the drawers to lighten his This was done, and on a ledge jjjid** were found a number of little packets the paper w rapping being yeljjjff with age. These parcels were ;,iiwl to contain sovereigns and half overeign3 to the amount of I*2oo. Tho auiiis ii: have been placed there by t |j.. hdi'-s’ mother, who died iuteytute giny years More. After the death of a well-known aider and miser of San Stefano a Urg*- -uni of money was found hidden ~ay in his house. In ;w cuplward ,hi' H wiis stuff««d w ith rags were found Kindle ot bank-notes of considerable TJ | U .., and in an old chair and sofa fe re coins totalling nearly 112,000 and Government Stoek ropre&nting a fuTsun) of 112,000. Bank-note* and ni ,tn*iv were also found in every conceivable hiding-place—in old boots and c!J clothes. The miser’s hoard, is stated to be -f- veral million lire (lire equals jKout Old.) The millionaire-miser lived „ n a frugal diet of potatoes and salad id drank only wjlter. £IOO IN A BOMB. A Liverpool chimney-sweep a few fw'k-J ago cleared up a very painful family mystery l»y bringing from the »k of the Hue a bag containing £4O jicoin. The.owner of the coin lost all pad lection of the hiding-place, and «*rs ago had accused her son of stealjog the money, with the result that he left the house never to return. booked u»xm in his lifetime as a danyron, A inn hist, a labourer announced vahis deathbed that he would leave "a pleatfait surprise” for hi* heirs. After his demise an iron l»omb was found’ prominently placed on a table. Expert artificers came to remove the infernal machine, which was opened, alter having been laid in a pail of water. Til t w.-re found £4OO in notes and gold. There was, some years since, an old mail in Shropshire who lived in a tumbled awn cottage; !he had never omr been known to eat anything hut biwid for twenty years, although in possess ion of a large sum of money. Whin h«» died a long search for his wealth was entirely in vain. After months of anxious inquiry the relative'! —?s usual in such raises, there were no brk ol numbers - wi*re almost in despnir. when one day a youngster pulled out from the dust-bin an old hat which the miser had worn. The money, nrnrh £IO,OOO in notes, lr-od been fixed in the hit. mostly between the silk and the rim. £7,(XX) IX BANK-NOTES. A very eccentric Isfcly died jji County Meath. After tile lady’s death no will (wild ho found, and it w<u> thought she and died intestate. The j*)licitor for tho per.-on believed to bo next-of-kin spent about forty days} in the house gothiough the most extraordinary accumulation of papers, documents, uand valuable property that hik'd the rooms in the house and even the hall. Not uulv evt r> room but every corridor was pil«*<l high with loose pa pen, books, ?nd parcels of all sixes and descriptions, and tlie litter on the stairs a, almost bee-deep. Various sums of money in and in very peculiar and unlikely places, in rubbish on the floors, in band-boxes, and in a pursue, and two hank-notes lor LI were actually found glued to the floor. The lawyers recovered an '"mense amount of property, illdi ding L7,(XX) in bank-notes and securi’.i'S of every kind. Tlicv also discover'd the lady’s will under which various charities much bench ted.