Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1916 — USED WOODEN LEG FOR SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT [ARTICLE]

USED WOODEN LEG FOR SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT

Paroled Colored Convict Had a Foxy Way of Caring For His Hard Earned Cash. The historical old soldier who had a wooden leg but who was always out of tobacco and couldn’t borrow a chew, has a counterpart in James Dickson, colored paroled prisoner, who was arrested Logansport yesterday for imbibing the bubbles. With this exception. Dickson has a wooden teg, but he didn’t have to beg tobacco, for the reason that he had a bank roll stuck away in a hole that he had bored in his said wooden leg. In this hole he had secreted quite a roll of paper money, and after the sock was pulled up over the hole he had snug and safe deposit vault as you would expect to find.. By getting intoxicated the negro violated his parole and will have to go back_to Michigan City.