Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — GOOD REASON FOR LEAVING. [ARTICLE]

GOOD REASON FOR LEAVING.

A couple of solictors who were working picture enlarging under a superintendent and boarding at the Nowels House, were seen by Nightwatch Zea taking French leave about 12 o’clock Wednesday night. Learning that they had not settled their board bill, Lyman overhauled the gentlemen at the depot and hustled them back to town, where the manager was roused up and agreed to pay their bill, after taking them to task for leaving him without notice. They were turned loose and left town. Later the manager thought perhaps the fellows had done some act that prompted them to leave so suddenly, and on investigation of the room occupied by Orth Nichols, son of the county treasurer, who occasionally stops over night at the hotel when out late, disclosed the fact that his pocketbook and some $9.50 in cash was gone. The fellows made good their escape.