'REFINED' WOMAN FOUND LYING IN FIELD COVERED WITH A BLANKET OF MONEY
New York City (JFK+50) On November 30, 1924, the Associated Press reports a woman described as "middle aged of apparent refinement" is being held in a Brooklyn hospital "after being found...lying face upward in a field."
It was not just that which caught the eye of a police officer who saw that she was covered under a $700 pile of one dollar and five dollar bank notes along with $700 worth of Liberty Bonds*.
This lady also possessed a bank book "showing deposits of $1200."
She gave the officer her name, verified by the bank book, as Minnie Griffin.
AP says that Miss Minnie gave no explanation for the "blanket of money."
*Liberty Bonds, issued 1917-1918, helped finance U.S. participation in the world war. $17 billion dollars was raised through the program covering more than half of the $30 billion cost of the war.
SOURCE
"Woman Arrested using Bonds and Bills as Blankets," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., November 30, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
