Strange things happen in New York, such as in 1924 when a woman was found in a Brooklyn field using bank notes and Liberty Bonds as a blanket. She was arrested and placed in a hospital. No clear explanation was given for the unusual scene.
Woman Arrested Using Bonds and Bills as Blankets
NEW YORK, November 29, 1924. — A middle aged woman of apparent refinement was held in a Brooklyn hospital, after being found by a policeman lying face upward in a field under a $700 pile of $1 and $3 bank notes. Her chest was further protected against the cold by $700 worth of Liberty bonds and a bank book showing deposits of $1,200 In the name of Minnie Griffin.
She said her name was Minnie Griffin, but at the address she gave as her home, it was said she was not known. She offered no explanation of the blanket of money.
Source: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), November 30, 1924.
