Frenchwoman's Hoard.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1910, Page 3

Frenchwoman's Hoard.

CLOOO FASTEXKD TO A DIIATX PIPE. Tlie French people's rooted distrust of banking institutions and their fondness for keeping their savings at home is .sometimes attended with comical consequences. A -thrifty dame who lives in the St. Lazare quarter possessed £1020 in notes >aud gold. She could think of no better place of secreting her heard than in a tin box fastened to the drain pipe outside her window., Here, she argued it would be secure from prowling thieves. Put she had counted without the wind. A gale displaced the previous box, and in its fall in struck in the hack of an industrious concierge, who was busy sweeping the courtyard. That functionary, having recovered from his surprise, and being unable to explain the descent of the box of money, took it to the nearest police station. He was busy furnishing the somewhat incredulous commissary with his expla.iration of the mysterious treasure when the owner of the mysterious treasure burst into the office to report its disappearance. It wns handed over to her with an admonitory word to find a safer place for it in future.