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Show P1ST! SLEUTH PICKS UP 'GOLD'; US PURE COPPER A wavt of honesty is apparently sweeping ovi r the police force of gden City Not that policemen are nut honest, but a new variety of Simon-pure honestv has been uncovered at the station during the past few days Waller Moore, detective, while sleuthing about the depot on un important clue, cast his eagle eye one a shining bit of metal "As I live, he exclaimed, 1 a narlv extinct ex-tinct five-dollar gold piece " and he slipped the money in his pocket without scraping loose the d'rt which incrusled the surface of the coin. YV A Taylor, detective, was pursuing tactics recognised as the best by Sherlock Holmes w hlle In the V'lclnlt) of the circus recentl He also, while sleeping the surroundings sur-roundings with his piercing glance spotted a coin His was not gold piece Merely a Lincoln penny. The officers met at the station and in the course of conversation related their finds. "I'll turn it in to the city treasurer, said Moore regarding his five spot. He drew the coin from his pocket and prepared pre-pared to place the coin In in envelope en-velope Dirt which had obscured the face of the coin had been rubbed rub-bed off and Instead of an Indian's hi .id on the coin, a representation of Abraham Lincoln was visible j 'Well the treasurer gets It any-wnv," any-wnv," Moore ald. and both offi-Cera offi-Cera placed the coins in separate I envelope and turned their finds over to Desk S-ergeant Wilson Uwencrs, It is said, can have the coins l properly Identifying the ! same. . . |