Sunday, January 19, 2025

Package by Railway Track Has $1,300 in Gold, $5,000 in Cash, Jan. 19, 1925

Finds $6,300 on Track

Thomasville, N.C.—For four days a package containing $6,300 lay beside the Southern Railway track here near the railroad station. C.C. Pritchard, freight agent for the railroad, picked it up and found it contained $1,300 in gold and $5,000 in paper money, addressed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

From the front page of the Concord Times, Monday, January 19, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068271/1925-01-26/ed-1/seq-1/#words=January+19%2C%27+1925

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