Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1903 — Uncle Mac Gets the Papers Back. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Mac Gets the Papers Back.

Alfred McCoy received an envelope and its contents through the post office last Friday morning, which he was very glad to get The circumstance of Uncle Mac’s losing his pocket book were related at the time On Labor Day, Monday Sept. 7th Uncle Mac received a deposit from St. Joseph College and the bank being locked he put money in his pocket book, and lost it very soon after. There was $lO5 in money and some change in the book, and a lot of very valuable papers. Uncle Mao offered $25 reward for tbe return of book and contents, but the finder knew a trick worth two of that; or rather four., He took the papers out of the ppeket book, and put tbe book

and money in hia own pocket then placed the papers in a plain sealed envelope, and without a scratch of writing of any kiqd to show who it was for, or what its contents were placed it in the post-office The envelope was kept in the case in the poet-office .the usual time on public exhibition, and then sent to the dead letter office, at Washington. There the olerks, opened it and found from the papers inside who they belonged to, and sent them back >o Mr McCoy, in care of Postmaster Meyer. The papers were so valuable, and some of them so hard to duplicated, that Uncle Mac is so pleased to get them back that the loss of the $lO5 does not trouble him.