MYSTERY OF £700.
LOST MONEY RECOVERED.
MESSAGE TO A DETECTIVE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The sum of £7OO lost by a womai on a ferry boat last Friday has beer recovered. A detective received al anonymous telephone message that Uu notes would be found in a certain opel space in the city, and the notes wer< found there tied with a string intact except that one was torn in half.
The sum of £7OO in notes was los! by a woman on Friday on a farrj steamer between Auckland and Bay* water. The money, which was drawl from the Post Office Savings Bank shortly before noon on Friday, consisted Of two £lOO notes, eight £5O notes, and five £2O notes. The womajn, who was carrying the notes wrapped in brown paper, was sitting on the lower deck on the starboard side of the vessel when making the trip to Bayewater, and must have dropped the parcel from her lap as she arose to leave the vessel. This is indicated by the fact that the paper in which the notes were wrapped waa found near the bottom of the stairs leading to the upper deck.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 4
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196MYSTERY OF £700. Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 4
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