Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Pocketbook Was Stolen. [ARTICLE]

Pocketbook Was Stolen.

Chester Zea, city teamster, had the misfortune to lose about $9 Saturday when some one swiped his pocketbook. He was busy in the fire house when his daughter came in and asked him for some money.' He handed her the pocketbook and she took the change needed and laid the purse down nearby, telling him where she laid it. He forgot about it for a time and when he looked for it it was gone. The purse contained about $9.