Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — A Hundred-Dollar Bill. [ARTICLE]

A Hundred-Dollar Bill.

We have a story with a moral for our numerous subscribers who are in the habit of carrying SIOO in their pockets A Hartford gentleman had a roll to that amount when he went to his butcher’s on Saturday. Monday he called on him and said he must have dropped the roll in his shop. Butcher said a man he knew by sight came in just after the gentleman was gone Saturday night, and, after paying for his meat, stooped down, picked up a roll, said he had dropped his money, and walked off. On the following Saturday this man returned and was told about the other man’s loss. He at once sent him a check for the amount, and said he was in a neighboring town the week before, and was paid SIOO just as the train was leaving, so he thrust it, as he supposed, into his vest pocket. When he was at the market he missed it, and, looking down, saw the roll on the floor, which he put into his pocket again. A week after, while feeling in his coat, which he had not worn during the week, he found another roll in one of the pockets. He at once posted to the butcher’s to find if any one had lost the sum. He was to have been arrested the following Monday, and would have had hard work to prove his innocence of the theft.