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EDITORIAL : GOOD SAMARITAN.


WHEN Ismael Gutierrez found a wallet with $1,000 in cash, he thought it was his lucky day.

And then the 39-year-old Canyon Country man looked inside and found a photo of the wallet's owner with his wife and two children, and he did the only thing he could - he turned it in.

His conscience, said the part-time landscaper, took control.

Honesty, valor valor

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, compassion. It's nice to see they're still alive.

Gutierrez turned the wallet, all its contents and an electronic organizer See PDA.  over to police, who called the owner, Ernest LeGault.

Money, credit cards and the organizer were joyfully joy·ful  
adj.
Feeling, causing, or indicating joy. See Synonyms at glad1.



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 with their owner, and Gutierrez, who started out the day with $2 in his pocket, ended up with a $200 thank you from LeGault.

We're happy to be reminded that people of honor live just around the corner from all of us, creating magic in a thousand different ways.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date:Apr 16, 1999
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