Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1919 — FISH DON’T BITE, BUT GOOD HAUL IS MADE ANYWAY. [ARTICLE]

FISH DON’T BITE, BUT GOOD HAUL IS MADE ANYWAY.

Hammond, Ind., Aug. 17. The ■perch were not biting at the lake front park in Indiana Harbor yesterday, but the suckers nibbled greedily. One in particular has four nice $1 bills, an imitation leather wallet, and an old suit case to show for his $700.. , It was a 'beautiful day and Paja Mikulichan, of 3736 Beach street, dressed in his best Sunday clothes, went to the lake for a dip. There he met two well dressed and extremely affable men with a •suit case, who informed Paja that they were looking for an honest man to distribute to the poor SIB,OOO they had in the suit case. The money, they explained, was raised by the churches of the United Sates, which they represented. Paja jumped at. the thought of the SIB,OOO and his poor friends. “Well, I’m an honest man, he confided modestly to the strangers. “Here is the money,” said the spokesman. He opened the suit case and there was a fat wallet with bills just sticking out of it. Paja s hungry eyes glistened, his fingers itched. „ ~ “Of course youre honest, said the con men, “but you’re a stranger. We must have some security. How much have you?” Paja rushed home- He dug up S7OO from under the old mattress and ran—gee, how he ran the strangers. They accepted the S7OO, fastened up the suit c? [ S7OO, fastened up the suit case and gave it to Paja and —fled, of course. Mr. Mikulichan hurried home, opened the suit case, took out the wallet, and. found it bulging with paper, around which the four $1 bills had been carelessly wrapped. The police will see what they can do for Paja.