FOUND ON DEAD PAUPERS.
Nothing is useless nowadays—not even a defunct pauper. Often they are owners of rings or tiny trinkets, not pawnablo, but still containing as much auriferous value asnot a few modern gold mines. These have to be collected and also converted into cash by means ol the melting-pot. In the Holborn Union the melting process takes place once a year, and has just been accomplished for the present season. The jewellery dealt with is what is found on paupers who die friendless and unclaimed in its various establishments. Rings, chains, brooches, and trinkets have been melted down, and produced a bar of gold worth about £4O. A good portion of it was got from the plates of artificial teeth. On one set of artificial teeth there was at least £4 worth of gold. The proceeds are paid into the common exchtqucr of the union.
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Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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147FOUND ON DEAD PAUPERS. Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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