This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Auel, Phillips Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.grant/4104/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Chronicle Telegram, The (Elyria, Ohio) > 1934 > July > 18 Honest Man Found In this day of crime, ranging from petty theft to wholesale murder for personal gain, it is more than refreshing to find an honest man. Were Diogenes alive, he would be able to end his search at a certain gasoline filling station at Beetown, Wis., with the light from his lantern shining in the fact [sic] of Erskine L. Auel. The honesty of Mr. Auel was demonstrated in connection with a purchase of gasoline made by Weldell V. PHILLIPS, of Milwaukee, to whom goes the credit for finding what Diogenes long ago sought. Mr. Phillips ordered 10 gallons of gasoline. After the fuel had been put in his car he paid for 10 gallons of gasoline and resumed his journey. Sometime later, he received a letter postmarked, Beetown. It was from the filling station proprietor. In it was 59 cents in stamps, and a note explaining this was a refund on the gasoline purchased by Mr. Phillips. "I charged you for 10 gallons," the note siad, "but you only got seven, which I discovered after you had gone." Investigation by the M ilwaukee man revealed that the gasoline dealer, who knew only that his customer was from Milwaukee and drove a certain make and color of car, had spent several dollars in telephone calls and otherwise in learning his name and address in order to refund the 59 cents. Mr. Auel seems to be not only an honest man but a man naturally endowed with some of the qualifications that go to make a good detective.