WINDFALL FOR TAXI-DRIVER
REWARD OF ABOUT £5OOO. A man who until recently was a poor taxicab driver in Milan has bebome the proprietor of a fortune £5OOO, because he found in his car, and returned to the police, the bag containing jewels valued at £lOO,OOO lost by Mrs. Ann Murdoch Coleman, the New York actress. For nearly 48 hours the jewel-case lay unseen in the taxi-cab, the driver of which had gone off duty for the week-end. When he returned to work he discovered the jewels and immediately took them to the police station. Distracted by her loss, Mrs. Coleman had returned to Rome before the recovery of the jewel-case, and spent a frantic two days before news of the find reached her. Italian law requires that a reward of five per cent, be paid to the finder in cases such as this. The taxi-cab driver, therefore, is assured of about £5OOO.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 11
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152WINDFALL FOR TAXI-DRIVER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 11
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