Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-12-05
ROMANCE OF A
COUNTERFEIT BILL.
Orisinall

i
haps at times we might defeat fate.
! For instance. suppose IN walking out
| hesitate which OF two streets 70 take.
| If | take the left hand one 1t doesn't
| matter. if take the other I will meet
| a person who VIII influence my life
| for evil knowing this. | take the
| left hand street and defeat fate. Queer.
isu't it?
| murried the woman destined to be
| NV wife. am the father Of my chill
| dren and pass through daily scenes all
predestined By a hunt for the original
shower of counterfeit bill. To find
| this shower was obliged 10 trace the
! bill from one person to another till |
| cot back to my starting point | never
| could understand why fate could not
| have been satisfied with connecting
the life live today with the bill with
out bringing in a circumstance re
| markabe in itself
| When | was Il very young man
| went into the government secret serv-
| ice one day Il bank teller in Pitts
| burg detected Il counterfeit ten dollar
| bill in the deposit of retail merchant
| who was considered above suspicion.
! was sent there TO learn from whom
| 1t had cnianated The merchant told
| me that he remembered the bill very
| Wen. for he hal needed change and
| had nothing in his pocket but the bill,
| lie had sl'Ch bad luck with Ii III this
! respect th.t he had put IT In his de-
| post with checks in order TO get rid
of It. It had been paid him as ne
turned borrowed money The borrow
| er had received II from greengrocer.
who got it from papcrhanger. to
| whom il was pail by Whole sale pa
] Per house.
| " The paper house the bin was iden-
titled by the cashier. who had suspect
FL il Of being spurious. II had been
| paid by man from Chicago for paper
| sent TO him there went To Chicago
|
one and had horglt the paper to put
on the walls oi Give. was sure lie
| was the original shower but he proved
| 10 me tnat he was making lot or mon
| cN ii lis dive anil had no knowledge
| of countcrtcitil@. Besides. he turned
me over TO Il leather man, who exam
| ind fhp hin opl .tIIpiftnt no had rlS
| cd ii TO the man | suspected. The
| leather man sent me to Detroit on Il
| Wild goose chase after Il shoemaker.
| who in turn sent me back 70 Pittsburg.
| cafting hack tn ISittslu,o lno,,ed rs
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""e ''s' u'Hoo' 'ltu' LUZ ill'9"ui
supposed couh'e1ol'er was Il dehtiSt'
was young then ana pflded mysclf
on going To work on case the right
way, so Instead of asking the dentist
| where he ..of fine bil vent info his
Office professionally He fonpd sew
.ral c,,it;os i, ma. ,ooth -, no ,,Irnoa
ona Won. o,,o,,a, :, - -.
i''7
A'' "e"'"' 'n'''' VI cV'iise 'aiNc'
| -'h't is' whenever ne look MS rubber
Jam OUT OF my mouth; | thought the
two words of the name should be
transposed- and as a man who pumps
usually interprets the information he
| gets TO suit himself was sure tba
| deptist WOO. a., arInri+
''N Wv ~ ''iu "'"'
ou' 9ouhS 'aol entered me operating
.pon. 'ne Si'''eu at the DOCTOR as
Playing such beautiful set of teeth
'n'' "ohuere' "hat use he could be
~ nei
| spent soou le2i OF time working
| VIZ S"ae 0" the deHtlsI put conldn
Ic''''" anu h,'aiIy decided TO 1rlght-
eu nm INTO admitting his guilt. Went
40 'l"Ce 'i''l he had hnlsned MS
WIN p'o'uceo me pili and accused
nm VI nav iiis maze H. lie didn't
rs ,'e-' - an lie TOOK the bill IN his
minus put a magnifying glass on 1t,
''a .ln !. nach 10 me and said:
~ 'ni' was handed me by James
e'e'i'.e, a merchant of this city, for
! II piece OF bridge work. | suspected II.