An Honest Find in the Snow
A local laborer, despite his own poverty, turns in a lost gold watch to the police.
Frank Jones, a laborer living at the Chicago House, appeared at the police station this morning with a lady's gold watch and fob, which he had found in the snow at North Fourth and J streets. When questioned at the station, Jones admitted that he was in straightened circumstances, but that he was honest enough to give up property which did not belong to him.
“Jones admitted that he was in straightened circumstances, but that he was honest enough to give up property which did not belong to him.”
The Chicago House and the streets around North Fourth and J (now North 4th and J St) were central to Tacoma’s working-class neighborhoods, where the economic precarity of laborers was a daily reality often noted in news reports of the era.
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