Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1910 — When The Iceman Weighs Things. [ARTICLE]

When The Iceman Weighs Things.

Ellis H., Parker, detective of Burlington county, New Jersey, besides being a terror to evildoers, is also a great teller of stories and a sportsman. ■He was telling the otiber day of sportsmen’s stories. He said: “Not all fishermen’s tales are lies, but some are told in good faith. Last fall a friend of mine went gunning and shot a wild goose, which he sent to a friend. Before sending it he weighed the bird and found that it totaled just 12 pounds. “Some days afterward he met the man to whom he had sent the bird, who told him how much he enjoyed it . ’That iwas a big bird,’ he said, *and it weighed a lot. Do you know what that bird weighed?’ Just to find out of the weights agreed, the gunner asked him to ’tell. 'Seventeen pounds , that bird weighed.’ “ *When I weighed it it only weighed 12 pounds,’ said the gunner. ) ‘“I know it weighed 17 pounds,’ said the friend, 'because our iceman weighed It.”’