Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — FURNACE IS BED; ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

FURNACE IS BED; ARRESTED

Red Bud Farmer Surprises Police Captors by Showing $3,000 in Currency. St. Louis. —Because his clothes were mussed and his face dirty the police here the other day arrested Edward Pelzer as a “suspicious character.” At the police station they were shocked to find all his pockets stuffed with greenbacks and goldbacks totaling $2,949. Pelzer, a farther of Red Bud, 111., 60 years old, said he had stopped off in St Louis on his way to the home of a niece at Naylor, Mo. Fearing he would be robbed if he went to a hotel, Pelzer spent the night in the abandoned furnace of a zinc factory. The police decided to bold the farmer until his relatives can be heard from.