Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1913 — Looking for Owner of Fingers. [ARTICLE]

Looking for Owner of Fingers.

A farmer near Kansas City, Mo n is looking for the owner of a couple of fingers he has in his possession. He went to market with a load of potatoes and started to sleep in his wagon during the night before market opened. He was disturbed by the moving of the canvas over the load and, waking, saw a hand slip beneath the canvas and abstract a couple of the tubers. The operation was re peated so many times that he could foresee nothing but the disappearance of the entire load unless he took sum* mary action. Raising a sharp hatchet he had with him, the farmer smote the hand the next time it appeared and the next morning found two guilty fingers in the wagon. The re* mainder of his potatoes were not molested.