cool 1958 find

[jeff of pa]

 

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[robertk]

That's a really cool find. But you gotta be asking yourself -- what's up with the fishing rods??

 

[xr7ator]

The rods were needed to snag the real caches.

 

[robertk]

The rods were needed to snag the real caches.

But why hide them? Were fishing rods illegal in 1932? Maybe they were used in a crime but hard to see how. Maybe there's a clue in that particular newspaper?

 

[xr7ator]

Great point, Robert. I was just being treasury so to speak.
Maybe deep sea rods were kinda pricey and they didn't want them to walk away?

 

[robertk]

Maybe there's a clue in that particular newspaper?

The only thing I saw was in the Philadelphia Enquirer for that day, a bank robbery of sorts where a guard was killed. But the gunmen fled inland, so probably a red herring.

 

[jeff of pa]

maybe someone slept with the fishes .
and the rods were their excuse for being out there while they put the guy to beddyby