P a g e 2 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r some citizen or citizens of Radersburg committed the theft. Great was the indignation of this community the morning after the robbery, and had the guilty party been discovered then I imagine he would have been dealt with in a way that would have brought forcibly to his mind the old adage: “Honesty is the best policy.” There was a whisper afloat that suspicion rested upon an enterprising young merchant of this place. The young gentleman did not hear the news for several days- and it is a wonder that he did not- for every man, woman, and child in town were aware that somebody said that somebody had told somebody that Mr. -----robbed the safe. Well, to use a Montana phrase which is more forcible than elegant, “He was hot” when he did hear it, and, like the genii in the fairy tale, he demanded blood. Grasping his revolver he went forth to find the man who said he was a robber; but as is usual in such cases everybody had heard so and so but they could not really say who had told them. They, of course had no such suspicion, themselves. He continued to rave until there suddenly recurred to his memory a story his mother used to tell him, in his boyhood days, of the dog that barked at the moon; yet the moon moved on in her majestic beauty and paid no attention to the dog. He is more composed now, and will soon be able to say with truth: “Richard is himself again.” I have been informed that a portion of the stolen money has been found. It had been stuffed into an ink bottle, and thrown into an old shaft, which is two or three feet in depth. As Mr. Fred Temple was walking leisurely along he spied the ink bottle lying at the bottom of the shaft, and he suddenly became possessed with a desire to see if he could throw a stone straight enough to hit it. It was probably the luckiest throw Fred ever made, for as the bottle broke, out rolled the five Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz thousand dollars in greenbacks, which, undoubtedly, is a part of the money stolen from the Treasury. It Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz sounds just like a romance, don’t it? But we all know “Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.” Most of the schools throughout Jefferson County have been closed on account of the missing funds. A paper was passed around here by the Trustees of this district, soliciting subscription for the school and one hundred and fifty dollars was collected, which is quite liberal, considering that so many of our citizens are
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