From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 6, 1975:

Local resident Harry A. Puckett, 86, had the unusual distinction of having been robbed seven times, most recently in the previous week when four youths had arrived at his house in East Lawrence asking if he had any old books. When Puckett had offered to help them sort through some boxes he had stored on his porch, one had pulled a knife on him. “We went down together. He kicked me three times and I think he hit me there,” Puckett said, indicating a bruise on his chin. Musing on the reason for his popularity with robbers, Puckett explained, ‘There’s some that know me that started the rumor that I’ve got some money.” The rumor had been persisting for years. One man caught inside Puckett’s house about four years earlier had related a story he had heard in a Missouri penitentiary, where legend had it that Puckett kept up to $125,000 cash in his house. Neighbors said that Puckett, a loner for some 20 years, was a hoarder and kept his belongings scattered in the house he had built himself on the 1100 block of Delaware, but that he never appeared to have any cash on hand.