Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — HOBO’S VEST HELD FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

HOBO’S VEST HELD FORTUNE

.Discarded Garment Snatched From Furnace in a Pennsylvania Hotel Just in Time.

Bedford, Pa. —Twelve thousand three hundred and six dollars, the savings of a lifetime, which Tony Colombo of the East side, New York, had sewed Ln his vest, was saved from j. blazing furnace in a local hotel by a narrow margin. - George Regoverl, 'cellist in the orchestra at the hotel, while motoring noticed a hobo pick a piece of bread from the ground where a picnic had been held several days ago. Regoverl took the man In his car and carried him back to the hotel. In the servant's quarters he was bathed, given a new suit of clothing and then a meal. Later he started on his way to New York. He/had been gone only a short time when he returned hastily, cjying that his savings of a lifetime were sewed ifi the old vest which he had discarded, and which the management of the hotel had ordered consigned to the furnace. A hasty search was made and the money was found, as Colombo said.