Show useful turn ups policeman messenger boys business men and not a few women for several hours one day last week took part in d search for a 5 gold piece which dropped from the hand of a ninth street business man who had received it in change at the A lot of smaller change which had fallen at the same time was soon recovered but not the gold coin very few cracks and crevices among the cobblestones escaped canes and prying e es but ail in vain even pools of water were swept away but to no purpose it did not seem possible that it could have rolled more than a few feet although the street for half a square was carefully scrutinized that evening the missing coin was found at least five miles away the man who had dropped it bur ned out to his home in west phila delphia intending to return to a thea ter putting on his evening clothes he went to bang up the pair of brou trou sers he had taken off when something dropped to the floor with a ring be fore him lay the 5 gold piece when the piece fell it had landed in the turned up told of his trousers philadelphia press |