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WOMAN WHO HAD £150,000 SEWED IN POCKET AND CLOTHES. NEW YORK, Saturday. When the United States was seized with panic in 1927, Mrs. Benjamin Wood, whose dead husband's brother was once Mayor of New York, decided that never again would she be Without cash. So she began collecting banknotes, at first of small and then of larger de- i nominations, and sewed them into ! secret pockets in her dress. The fa- j mily is wealthy, and whenever the widow sold a piece of real estate, she told her relatives that she had put the money safely away. They failed to trace it, however, and when at 93 her mind showed signs of failing, her nephews this we6k obtained a court sanction quietly to search the old lady's clothing. The Court appointed nurses, who assumed charge of Mrs. Wood in her two tiny rooms in the old Herald Square Hotel, which she has not left in a decade. The search was rewarded by the finding of 50 bills worth £2000 each and a lot of loose change, the entire fortune totalling £150,000..
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 4
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183SECRET FORTUNE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 4
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