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Show FORTUNE WAITS TRAMP VHO CAN'T BE LOCATED. WAITOEUINCMDAYS ARE ' 0VE3 IT T3A1EP ONLY - ' PUTS IN APFEARA2ICE. . 4 ' .- ' Every effort Is being made to find Rltsdorff to Inform him that bis wandering days sre ended. Advance Check cf Inheritance Inher-itance Frcm Germany Arrives for Johann Rltzdorff. ; GETTYSBURO, Pa., Feb. 16. Although Al-though Johann RltzdorfE. a German tramp, who has been wandering through southern Pennsylvania for the last four years, has fallen heir to a large fortune, he Is cow begging ills way around the country, Ignorant' of the fact that an advance check for 4500 marks has been received from the German Consul at Baltimore, and has been deposited to his credit: ' " '; . " Pour "years ago Rltsdorff deserted from the German army -and came to this country, where he has since Uved as a common tramp, begging from boose to house and sleeping in bams. One day on reading a German newspaper news-paper Rltsdorff discovered that hi parents pa-rents were dead, and, thinking that some money might - hare been left to Mm. he called on Attorney Keith of this place, and then' disappeared without leaving an address. Lawyer Keith communicated with the German Consul, and spent months in discouraging correspondence with German Ger-man lawyers, but he received a check for 4500- marks and information that a balance of more than 23,000 marks would foUow. - |