Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1911 — LONG DEFERS A RESTITUTION [ARTICLE]

LONG DEFERS A RESTITUTION

Anonymous Letter Received by Aged Man Containing S9OO for Team Stolen In 1866. Lancaster, Pa. —An unusual occurrence took plaoe at Washington borough when Rev. H D. Boughter, pas-i tor of the Church of God, .was handed at his rectory a letter by a man and told to hand it some time during the day to Uriah Douglas, now nearly eighty years old, and a retired red-; dent. Rev. Mr. Boughter went to Mrj Douglas's bom* and the letter wan opened. To their surprise it contained five new SIOO bills. A note on the inside said the sender had dond Mr. Douglas a wrong forty-five years ago, and here was money enough to pay for it with interest, and that be would hear from him In h. few dnnN Mr. Douglas recalls that to 1865 a team had been stolen from him, and from which nothing had ever been heard, and it Is believed this Is thd man who handed over the letter. He had purchased the team with bountjj money received from the government after the close of the war, and while at the ptcnlo at Highvllle the team was stolen and nothing but the Unsq left The supposition the man who handed the letter to Rev. Mr. Boughter Is a wealthy ranch owner of thd west as several young mbn about that time went west and have M good. Mr. Douglas Is m tovnUA mot can use the monqpL