Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1911 — CROW STOLE POCKET BOOK [ARTICLE]

CROW STOLE POCKET BOOK

Long Lost Money, for Which Hired Man Had Been Accused of Stealing, Found in Old Nest Waterville, Pa.—Abram Renter of Blockhouse Is 880 better off and the name of a former hired man, who was discharged under suspicion of theft has been cleared. Renter has an old orchard of 50 or more trees on his place. He had been reading In the newspapers that old orchards pruned and‘sprayed and scraped could oftentimes be made to treble their production. He began the work of cutting out the dead and superfluous limbs. While at work in one of the trees the other day he saw something sticking out from underneath an old robin's nest that bad been built in one of the lower forks of the tree. The thing looked like a little book of some kind, and when be had torn the bird’s nest loose and picked up the article the mystery of his stolen money was solved. The article he found was an old pocket book which ho formerly owned, and upon opening be found in it, badly mussed and water-beaten, and yet perfectly- redeemable, the eight 810 bills which ho had accused his former hired man of stealing two summers ago. The money is believed to have been carried there by a tamo crow which the Renter children bad around the house. The crow was a notorious thief. It once carried off a piece of sticky fly paper and one of the boys found the bird a helpless prisoner In the stuff in the corn crib, to which it had carried the paper, and there attempted to pick it to pieces, the result being that the sticky side adhered to its feathers and feet and the more it struggled the worse it got tangled up.