Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1913 — He Wrapped Watch Chain Around His Big Toe [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

He Wrapped Watch Chain Around His Big Toe

KANSAS CITY, MO. —Although he lost all his money, and is a sadder, wiser man, Jerry Killigan of Tarkawa, Olila., has taught the world a new trick in the way of preserving valuables. The coin is gone, forever, perhaps, and

there was $54 of it, but Jerry has his watch safe and sound, all because he played a new variation on the “First National Bank” wheeze. Jerry came to the city to view and buy tin? latest sartorial effects, for lie wanted to get himself “all togged out;“ he’s authority for that. He had the $54 and a yearning to convert every cent of it into beautiful wearing apparel. Dressed in his old regimentals," He departed for home yester day, however. The prospective fashion plate arrived in the evening and went to a rooming house. His room was entered, his $54 taken and his confidence in Kansas City lodging houses shattered to bits. He reported his loss to the police, and asked where and how he might obtain money on his watch to defray expenses back to Oklahoma. He was di-

rected to the new-fangled municipal activity, the city pawn shop. “H«jw in the world did you keep your watch when everything else was stolen Ralph Perry, officially in charge of the city’s three-ball palace. “I wrapped the chain around my toe and then pulled my sock on over the watch and chain. I slept with it that way. But,” and here the sockful Jerry almost wept, “I forgot to do that with my money.” The sorrowing Kerrigan was allowed $9 on his timepiece and chain by the city’s “uncle,” and with that was able to make his way to Tarkawa in first-class shape, providing he loses his appetite.