Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1911 — Lost Nearly Fifty Years. [ARTICLE]
Lost Nearly Fifty Years.
Goshen, N. Y.-—General Henry L. Burnett, former United States attorney, who has a summer home near Goshen, received by registered mail from Chicago a keywinder silver watch that had been despatched to him by messenger during the Civil war and never reached him. A relative of General Burnett came across the watch In a Chicago jewelry store recently.
