Greensboro—Her conscience gnawing, a woman has sent to the Odell Hardware company of this city 10 cents, with a letter explaining that it was to pay for a bottle of hair oil taken from the store 45 years ago. The letter stated:
Odell company:
“You will find enclosed 10 cents to pay for a little bottle of hair oil I stole at your store 45 years ago when I was a little girl. Please forgive me. I want to get that fixed up. I don’t want to meet that little bottle of oil at the judgement. I told my mother you gave it to me. I told a lie.”
Once before the Odell company received conscience money, a year ago, when $5 was enclosed in a letter which stated that the sender had gotten religion and wanted to pay for merchandise worth that sum, stolen about 10 years previously.
From page 2 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 31, 1925
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