The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-04-16
SALOON MAN KEPT GOLD SAFE
Eleven Year Old Son of Louis Robsel
Sought SO Worth of Nickels and
Carried Home $500 Worth of Shining
Five Dollar Gold Pieces.

Chief of Police Owen O'Hare made
good as treasure hunter on Tuesday
and after an all day search he located
bag of gold which had been taken
from one of the banks of the city. The
search for the lost treasure of shining
five dollar gold pieces proved to
be one of the most interesting cases
in police circles in many years.
Early Tuesday morning Chief Of Po-
lice O'Hare was notified that bag
of gold coin containing eighty new five
dollar gold pieces had been sent out
by mistage from one of the banks of
the city. The mistake had been made
Monday afternoon. During one of the
busy periods Of the banking day an
eleven year old boy had entered the
bank. His head just reached to the
shelf of the cashier s window and he
pushed dirty little hand through the
grating and presented ten. dollar
silver certificate. He asked for ten
dollars worth of nickels. A young
woman employee with view Of help
ing out the assistant cashier filed the
order and she pushed the bag of coin
through the window to the little boy
and he trotted off up Market street
with it stored away in the pocket of
his overcoat. 1t was not until after
snlil.e cars f0l.tlsty afternoon shat
the loss of the money was discovered
When the bank checked up for the
day it was noticed that the bag of gold.
was missing. There was no trouble in
finding how it had got out of the bank
as there was a complete check on the
supply of coin of various denomina-
tions and this showed that ten dollars
in nickles had been left behind in place
Of $500 in gold Chief O'Hare was no
tilted. His information in regard to
the~fdentity of the boy who had secur-
ed the bag of gold was decidedly
meagre. The young woman who had
handed out the money declared that
she believed chat she could recognize
him if she saw him again but admit
ted That she hadn It the remotest idea
who the boy was or who he came to
the bank to get change for.
Chief O'Hare started in to take a
census of all the eleven year old boys
connected with any of the business
houses in the city. He visited every
place in the down town neighborhood,
but found no eleven year old boy who
would answer the description Of the
little fellow who had carried away
more gold thar most people in Kenosha
had ever seen. Chief O Hare kept busy
until late in the afternoon when he
started to make search in the sa-
looms in the outlying districts He dug
into the treasure when he reached the
saloon of Louis Robsel on Grand aven-
ne. When he reached this place Rob-
sci promptly admitted that he not only
had an eleven year boy who had been
sent to the bank for change, but that
he also had in his safe eighty five dol
lar gold pieces that didn It belong to
him. He expressed surprise that any
one should have worried about such a
mere trife and declared that he had
planned to take the money back to the
bank today and exchange it for two
hundred Buffalo" nickles, Chief
Q Hare agreed to save him trip
down town and the bag of gold was
back in the safe of the bank Tuesday
night and the bag of nickles, all of
them bright and new, was sent out to
Robsel by special messenger.
Robsel declared to the chief that he
had no intention of keeping the money
and that he thought that he would get
il back to the bank before its absence
was noticed