Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1915 — How It Happened. [ARTICLE]

How It Happened.

“It was this way,’’ said the tattooed man to his circle of interested listeners. “I was marooned on an island In the South Pacific and captured by a band of savages. They demanded a thousand dollars for my release. I was in a terrible predicament —all my money was in a New York bank, and I hadn’t a cent with me.” “What did you do ?” asked one of the listeners as the tattooed man paused for breath. “I told them to draw on me, and they did.”