Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — POTATOES IN HIS CASH BOX [ARTICLE]

POTATOES IN HIS CASH BOX

Commission Man Out $7,010 as Result of Game Worked by Confidence Men. Little Rock, Ark.—Louis Repetti, sixty years old, an Italian, who has amassed a fortune in the United States in the commission business, has twelve small potatoes that cost him $7,010. According to stories Repetti told the police, he was out that sum as the result of the operations of another Italian named Ricci, for whom a warrant has been issued. Ricci and Repetti deposited securities in boxes of similar appearance, but when Repetti opened his box he found it had been switched, and instead of his money being intact the box contained twelve potatoes. Ricci has not been apprehended.