Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — LOST VALUABLE GRIP IN DEARBORN STATION. [ARTICLE]

LOST VALUABLE GRIP IN DEARBORN STATION.

> . Charles E. Sternberg Relieved of Grip Containing Howe Ditch Bonds and Valuable Papers.

Charles E. Sternberg, the ditch contractor,, had his grip stolen from Dearborn station in Chicago Tuesday afternoon. He had placed the grip in a seat and thrown his coat over it. He was tired and it was hot and he walked out in front of the station, leaving his grip and coat in the seat. He thinks he was not gone longer tjian three minutes. When he returned the grip was gone and his coat was on the floor. In the grip were the Howe ditch bonds, amounting to $2,500. Some say that these are negotiable and that they must be paid to whoever is in possession of them as they fall due. Treasurer Allman assured Mr. Sternberg that they can be paid to no one but himself. The first of the bonds, amounting to $250, will be due Jan. let, 1912, and the others are due annually thereafter. Mr. Sternberg also had in his grip a number of notes, and he is uncertain about the dates and amounts of these. He also had his books of accounts in connection with the Iroquois and Hoagland ditches, which are valuable because they show the expenditures in those two* big dltphes. He has offered SSO for the return of the gxip and contents. His experience shows how very unsafe it is to leave anything of value for a minute in Chicago.