True crime · 02.1934
Haapsalu girls who painted their own banknotes
Haapsalu tüdrukud, kes joonistasid ise rahatähti
In February 1934 two Haapsalu shops were handed strange money: a 5-kroon note and a 1-kroon note drawn entirely by hand in watercolours, so skilfully that they looked almost real. The trail led to two very young women of 17 and 18. One of them, caught for a theft, told the police she had seen pencil drawings of banknotes hidden behind her friend's mirror; the friend insisted the other had put them there. The notes were sent to an expert to work out which of the two 'money masters' had painted them.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
1934. aasta veebruaris toodi kahte Haapsalu poodi imelikku raha: 5-krooniline ja 1-krooniline rahatäht, mis olid tervenisti käsitsi vesivärvidega joonistatud ja nii osavalt, et paistsid peaaegu ehtsad. Jäljed viisid kahe väga noore, 17- ja 18-aastase neiuni. Üks neist, kes tabati varguselt, rääkis politseile, et nägi pliiatsiga joonistatud raha oma sõbranna peegli taga; sõbranna aga väitis, et need peitis sinna teine. Rahatähed saadeti ekspertiisi, et selgitada, kumb kahest „rahameistrist“ need maalis.