Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1881 — A Man Picks Up a $90,000 Package. [ARTICLE]

A Man Picks Up a $90,000 Package.

jOiir readers will remember the case of Jamft* E. McCann, who, a few days since, found a pocket-book, containing $230 in a water-c loset on Sixteeuth street. Having spent a portion of tlie mpri*y under the impressiori,:that Had- been lost for some find no claimant, he was Mrretwd,but subsequently discharged* Oh agreeing to refund the appropriated. McCann has a peculiar history as a lucky; |igmJn finding lost property. He is a bricK-lawer by trade, and formerly rpsided* in Chicago. Going to his work one uicrrning in that city, he saw a pare*!* neatly done up, lying on the siaewafk in front of one of the national banks* and thinking that it contained somebody's luncli, he picked it up and carrieo it with hbn to work. At noon., he oW’nlunch, and thinking of his fthd ' he Opened it to see what It might contain. To his he, jfound $70,000 in bank was, of courso, somewhat astonished and alarmed, too. Ors hjs way home in the evening he ssw.ponie oien putting up posters annbnneing tne loss by a bank messenger of.a valuable package,’ and immediately proceeded to report to the parties, wno proved their property and paidmim the sl,ooooffered in the hand-bilfc. >• At another tinie subsequent to this he fouud tontoining $15,000 or the ic* in the Missouri River, for which found the claimant. Yesterday, after he had been discharged from the pqliw court,he found a package containing $90,000 worth of land certificates of the Uni,on Pacific railway, which hi returned to the owners, and received a reward for so doing. He is certainly a lucky fellow, and if he was only entitled to salvage on all his discoveries, he would soon be as rich as,thd,Moshs< > hlldß.