MONEY IN SUITCASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 151, 29 June 1932, Page 7

MONEY IN SUITCASE

€lll AMONG NEWSPAPERS FOUR SHILLINGS FOR FINDERS SYDNEY, June 16. When an employee from a neighbouring furniture store was using h vacant allotment at Brunswick to roll linoleum on a recent Friday afternoon, he found a battered suitcase in the long grass. It contained a pensioner’s card and a number of old newspapers. The man handed the case to a passing boy and advised him to find the owner, who might reward him for the return of the case. The boy took the ease home and his mother discovered some £1 notes between the newspapers. The boy’s father made a further investigation and more £1 notes were found. y He took his son and the case to the Brunswick police station and there it was found that the case contained £lll in notes, secreted among tho newspapers. The owner of the pension card was traced. She proved to be an old woman, well known in Brunswick for her habit of carrying the suitcase wherever she went. The woman explained to the police that she had been saving the money for many years and that, on the day in question, when she set the case down to open her door, someone had stolen it. The police suggested that the woman might reward the finders of the money, so shs left 2s each for the boy and the shop assistant.