People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — $600 FOR A SAUCEPAN. [ARTICLE]

$600 FOR A SAUCEPAN.

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Highley Kept His Money In a Rag Bag, and HU Wife Sold It for Rags. Fletcher Highley, a farmer living near Liberty, Ind., received several hundred dollars last week from the 6ale of some stock and placed the money in his wife’s rag bag for safe keeping, fearing that thieves might find it if it were known to be about the house. The repository seemed such a safe one that he added his gold watch and one belonging to his wife. Saturday he was away from home, and, a peddlar calling, Mrs. Highley sold the rags for half a cent a pound, and received a tin Saucepan valued at 20 cents. When Mr. Highley returned in the evening and was about to deposit a few more dollars in the rag bag he found it empty and his wife reported the sale Of the rags, and showed the saucepan with the expectation of having her shrewdness complimented. Mrs. Highley was horrified to learn that the bag contained S6OO and her husband’s watches. Mr. Highley started after the peddlar yesterday and found him near Richmond. He professed to know nothing of the money and the watch and said that the raga had been shipped to an eastern rag firm, Mr. Highley has wired the firm.