Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1912 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Finds $5,000 in a'Shoe; Offered SI.OO

I thought it was a piece of glass at first, but then I saw some more sparkling points. I got on my knees and picked them up. My wife didn’t see me and I didn’t say , anything to her because I knew she would get excited. “In a moment I found a little chamois bag. I what had happened— > somebody had been hiding jewels IS an old shoe. Who it was I didn’t know: But I did know that It wouldn’t be long before I found out “When I had the diamonds all picked up there was a handful of them. Any one of them would have bought my store. I decided not to tejl a .soul for fear the story might spread and somebody break In and murder my wife and me. ' ;: "About two days afterward a girl came In almost crying. She threw her check down on the counter. “ ‘My shoes! Where are my shoes? Quick! Hurry!’ I looked up and smiled when my wife gave her the shoes and looked puzzled at the customer’s agitation. ‘“The diamonds! They are gone! Please give them back to me!” Shrieked the girl. “She became v frantic when my wife told her she knew nothing about any diamonds. Then I stepped up and told her the diamonds were safe. Later I took them to Mrs. Dunn myself. “Yesterday a neighbor brought me $1 as a reward for the return of the $5,000 worth of diamonds. That was about the funniest thing I ever heard of. I laughed and laughed and when I was able to stop laughing I waved my hands at him and told him to hurry back to Mrs. Dunn with the sl*

CHICAGO.— David J, Winder, Who keeps'a eobbler shop near the corner of Evanston avenue and Irving Park boulevard, found a handful of diamonds, valued at $5,000, In the toe of an old shoe brought to him to repair, and for returning the jewels to the owner was offered a reward of one dollar, which he refused. When the story of the lost diamonds and the reward threatened to beoome public, Mrs. Robert W. Dunn, owner of the gems, disappeared. It was said at her home, 4065 Sheridan road, that she had left the city. Winder and his wife were both busy In their shop when inquiries were made there. “Oh, yes,” said Winder, banging a wooden peg into the sole of a shoe and shifting to one side a few more pegs he held between his teeth. “I found the diamonds. It was the biggest find I ever made. There’s hardly a week goes by, though, but I ; flnd money and other valuables In shoes. “Mrs. Dunn sent her old shoes over here by a girl. There were five of them In a rickety pasteboard box. My jWlfe received them, marked them, tossed them over In a corner and gave the girl a check with a number on It. “Well, as I commenced to straighten r things up' for the night my eye caught the sparkle of something on the floor. .