Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — The Man Who Found Some Money. [ARTICLE]

The Man Who Found Some Money.

The other day a very common looking man, dressed in very common clothes, entered a saloon on Woodward avenue at a moment when the proprietor was alone and asked him to lock the door for a moment and count the contents of a pocketbook which he had just flicked up on the street. The door was ocked, and as a fat-looking wallet was handed out the stranger said: “ I can’t read nor write nor tell figgers, but I know you won’t oheat me. The money counted up just odc hundred dollars. There were two twentydollar bills, and the rest were of smaller denominations. The stranger said he would hand the wallet over to the police, and thanked the saloonist and departed. .In about a quarter of an hour he returned and confidentially said: “ I gave up all the money but a tendollar Dill, which I’m going to keep for my honesty. Let’s drink.” He threw down one of the twentydollar bills and drank his beer. It was remembered that he had said he couldn’t tell the figures on the bills, and he was given change for ten dollars. “Was that a five or a ten?” he asked, as the twenty was put away. “ Oh, that’s a ten,” was the reply. The man drank once more, and then took his leave, in the course of an hour a detective was looking for him on charge of passing a connterfeit bill, but he oould not he found. May be that salooniat made ten dollars out of him, and may be he didn’t.— Detroit Free Press.