A PLUMBER'S FIND
DRAPER'S BAG OF GOLD HIDDEN IN THE ROOT?. "I can underatad an old countrywoman hiding gold in a stocking, but I cannot understand a wide-awake Welshman allowing gold to be unproductive," was a North London Magistrate's comment on a strange story told in Court recently, when Stephen Lambert, 70, plumber, was charged with stealing MH in gold belonging to John Stanford Thomas, a Clapton Common draper. On April 9 Mr. Thomas, having to make a journey, put the £40 in gold in a bag and concealed it in the roof loft above his bedroom. When he returned on July 30 it rcas gone. From Mrs. Thomas he ascertained that the tank in the roof had needed repair, and prisoner had been in the loft several times to see to it. "I found the bag of gold in the roof all covered with cobwebs. I did not think it could belong to anyone in the house, so I took it. Anyone would have done so," was prisoner's explanation to the detective. He had only six sovereigns left. Prisoner was sent for trial.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 8
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184A PLUMBER'S FIND Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 8
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