Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1920 — Boys and Dog Dig Up $2,000. [ARTICLE]

Boys and Dog Dig Up $2,000.

Four schoolboys, while spending the Whitsuntide holidays in Mulhuddert, a village outside Dublin, ratting with a terrie r discovered a hoard of more

than 1400 In sovereigns (normally $2,900) in a rat hole. The news quickly spread, and a local postman claimed the money as his. He says about £4OO was left to him by hla father, a blacksmith. who had Inherited it from his father, ant! to keep It safely in these troublous times the postman burled it in a field where it would still have remained but for the inquisitive terrier. The postman’s claim was admitted unanimously and the parents of the boys returned him sums amounting to about £l5O. Local volunteers, are making inquiries with a view to having the balance of the money restored. —Edinburgh Scotsman.