Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Mysterious Stranger. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Stranger.

“Something mighty queer about a feller that was here last week,” related the landlord of the Turgidtown tavern. “He never kicked about his room, eat with apparent relish what was set before him, didn’t try to flirt with the waitresses, and when I asked him if he was looking for land or seeking health or canvassing for something he politely replied that he wasn’t. He went to bed and got up at reasonable hours, walked sedately about town, bought 10-cent cigars as if he was used to ’em, answered civilly the remarks of practically every.promInenLoittzen In town about toe weather./He stayed three days, and then paid hjs bill without crumbling, bade me a courteous good-by and went away with as little flutter as be bad come. And on account of the consistent manner in which he minded his own business and let other people’s affairs alone there has bfeen a good deal of speculation about him ever since, the consensus of opinion being that he was either a famous detective, some kind of a slick swindler or a crazy man.” —Kansas City Star.