Beggar’s good deed to earn him $145,000

Sarah Darling’s fiancé set up a website seeking donations for Billy Ray Harris, a beggar in Kansas City. More than 6,000 people have donated $145,000 (£95,704) to the fund.

“We often jump to like the worst conclusion, and it just makes you realise that there are good people out there,” Miss Darling said.

Mr Harris discovered the ring about an hour after Miss Darling put change from her purse into his cup. She had taken off her ring and put it with the coins.

“The ring was so big that I knew if it was real, it was expensive,” Mr Harris told KCTV.

Miss Darling went back to Mr Harris and told him that she might have given him something valuable. “‘Was it a ring?’” he recalled asking her. “And she says, ‘Yeah.’ And I said ‘Well, I have it.’ “

“It seemed like a miracle,” Miss Darling said.