Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1916 — PROSPERS ON STOLEN MONEY [ARTICLE]

PROSPERS ON STOLEN MONEY

Wealthy Kansas Farmer Reetores Cash With Interest After 31 Years. Kantner, Pa.—William Speicher of this place served as go-between in an unusual transaction recently by which an aged resident of Stoyestown recovered S2OO with Interest for 31 years from a wealthy Kansas farmer who was troubled by a guilty conscience. It appears that 31 years ago the aged loser was on his way to pay S2OO on a small home he had purchased. He arrived at his destination but the money was gone. He became ill and disheartened, and never secured a home of his own. On the day the money was lost the Kansas farmer, then a poor young man, was walking on the xailroad. He found the wallet after it slipped from the man’s pocket and-went to Kansas. There he secured a homestead, prospered and finally decided that he must restore the S2OO and interest to the man he had wronged. * The old man was found through Mr. Speicher, and from almost destitute circumstances at the age of 75 years, he has been placed in comparaative comfort.