Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — His Hump a Savings Bank. [ARTICLE]

His Hump a Savings Bank.

For years there was a beggar on the steps of Saint Sulpice with a hump which steadily grew. l A few months ago he was taken ill and in dcliruin jumped out of a window and was.killed. A neighbor who picked him up upon investigating his hump found that it contained $20,000 in bonds and coin. Finding that the beggar had two relatives to whom he had left his fortune by will, th j finder sent the money to them with* the exception of $4,000. The rola tives discovered this fact, and prosecution for theft, the man in question was condemned to two years imprisonment.