Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-05-08

last, to the elepement Of Messrs. Collson and
Daunois, the former Discount Clerk, the lat
ter receiving Teller in the Bank Of Louisiana,
Az ycs We have not been able 10 ascertain
from tic papers, the exact amount le5t 10 tho
bank by these men from $4,000 to II 100000
is the received estimate. Against MIR. Coli
son, nothing has been found, further than that
he had operdrawn some ss20,0tW in the State
Bank. Mr.. Daunols, says the Crescent CITY,
has pocketed " about $sO,t0O received in two
deposites on Friday and Saturday 23d. aud
2ith ult. One gentleman on Friday deposited
S30,WO0, and on Saturday q well known firm
here deposited $4,000, neither otwhich sums
appear On the "scrutcher " Of the receiving
teller and which alone marks his reeponsibly
for the day..
The police, and agents df tho bank, who
commenced pursuit on Sunday the 9th, have
80 far discovered no traces of the ahscnnded.
A more extensive business, however, has
been in operation during some months past,
by two men calling themselves Chambers and
Mackey. The following details are from the
Picayaaf.
"1'hey had originally n capital of about
$1,000, out Of which they hava managed
to raise something more than SiOO, 900,
by means Of %swindlingi
While here Mackey kept an account
with the City and Commercial Banks, do.
posting and drawing small sums frequent.
~. From Mobile he correspondent with
Mr.. Hall, Cashier Of the Commercial
Bank, on the subject OF finance, cx-
changes, &c. From this bank he obtain
ed two certificates of deposite---one fer
'S60, the other I'll 900 in specie. The 800
he raised to $1,000 which was presented
by n man in company with Mackey. The
money was pail. The genuine certificate
tor $1,000 was retained by the villain, and
is supposed to have been altered to a much
amount and sold.
Mackey afterwards got several other
from the same bank on specie
deposites, which have all been altered, and
the cashier is already advised Of seven
which were never negotiated by the bank.
One for SIS 900 was sold ut louisville;
one for $4,000 at Cincinnati one at
Philadelphia for $4,000: and one ut
New York for $a3, 900, besides others not
recollcctod.
The mail from New York on Saturday.
2ith ult., brought to the address of Il COM
mercial house in this city a certificate Of
deposite, purporting to be No. 422, for
specie on the Commercial Bank,
which had been altered, probably, from
1923, and sold TO a broker in New York"
Although parsuers followed these men, it is
yet uncertain that any clue has been obtained
OF their retreat. A late number Of the Phila-
North American, states that a person,
under the name Of Draper, had been arrested
with difficulty after passing to the Girard Bank
a forged check for ssla, 900 on the CONNER
cial bank Of New Orleans. But the p.cayune
Of Wednesday, having derived its information
from a source perhaps equally authentic, gives
another version of the story, from which it ap-
pears the check was for but Sl0,500 and that
was only suspicioned, and gave up the
money which he had received, on promise that
as soon as the validity of the draft was ac-
knowled from New Orleans, it should be
While the bank was waiting the re-
the artful rogue g off to parts un-
known.