Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — USES REVOLVER TO GET COAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USES REVOLVER TO GET COAL.

Detroit Clerk, Confronted with Cash and Gon, Writes Out Order. "Here is $7.50. Write me out an order on the yard for a ton of coal.” A clerk for a coal firm in Detroit looked up from his books to gaze into the barrel of n big revolver held in tho hand of a woman on whose face was a very determined expression. “Yon said that yeti would not be asleep if 1 attempted to get

coal in your yard. Now, I want to tell you that this gun won't be asleep if you don’t write out the order, and write it out mighty quick.” In this manner the woninn full ton of hard coal for ,7.50. She had a wagon outside, and as soon ns she received the order drove into the yard, secured the coal and drove home in triumph.

USES GUN TO GET COAL.