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A good Samaritan: UW student finds purse, returns it to owner

A 54-year-old Madison woman who lost her little green fuzzy purse with $100 inside had the purse returned to her, with the money intact, by a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who found the purse lying in a driveway near her home.

The return of the purse took some doing. The female student left a note on the older woman’s front door saying she found a purse and gave an e-mail address to contact her, but the older woman told the police officer responding to her call that she didn’t know how to use e-mail.