Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1915 — OLD BOOT A TREASURE BOX [ARTICLE]

OLD BOOT A TREASURE BOX

So Say* Merrymaker, Who Tries to Spend *I,OOO He Alleges He ' Found in Toe. This was a busy day in the life of Frank Cunningham. An old house was left to his grandmother for a kindness she did many years ago. She told him he could have a pair of rubber boots there. J In one of the boots Cunningham found *I,OOO in twenty dollar bills, hid-

den there a long time, Frank hurried to the white light district of Main street and began to \ buy drinks for everyone he could find. A bonus went to the bartender with every purchase. He paid *2O for fifteen pounds of porterhouse steak; another *2O for supper and S2O for a carriage ride from one gilded drinking palace to another. However, when he paid S2O for a bottle of castor oil the druggist called the police. The druggist is a member of the Citizens’ Reform union. The police found *BO2 in Canning*

ham’s pockets, and from incoherent statements he volunteered th z ey accused him of the burglary in the old saw works three weeks ago. Two other men were arrested on his statement. —Ossining (N. Y.) Dispatch to New York Herald. ‘