The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-14

We had lust. commenced dessert;
when a telegram was brought In by
one of the servants, and handed to
Mr.. Wilmot, who quickly read it, and
with look of surprise, passed it to
me. Now, in the course of our extern
sive banking business, 1t was con-
tinually necessary to communicate by
wire from enc branch to another, on
important matters, and, for the sake
of the needful secrecy. a cipher code
was adopted. This code was only
known to the chief officials at each
branch, and hence none of the tele-
graph clerks could understand our
dispatches. The telegram was in this
code and was from M, a town
about forty miles off, where there
were two banks-viz.: our branch and
a private bank. The telegram stated
that this private bank had closed its
doors finally that afternoon at four;
that Mr.. Dane, our manager at NJ,
had just got this information, and
that he expected q severe run upon
onr bank In the morning. He urged
us to send him immediate relief, and
suggested that we should telegraph to
our branch at o. for gold for
our use, so as to send him as much as
possible. The case was most urgent
one, and Mr.. Wilmot and myself de-
cided what TO do. | started in q cab
to fetch the cashier, who had one Of
the three keys of the bank strong
room, the others being in the respect
i've keeping of myself and the mana
ger. While / went on this errand,
Mr.. Wilmot sent off telegram, giving
a copy Of Mr.. Danes, with some fur
Their hints to the manager at o.
Mr.. Wilmot was at the bank when
returned with the cashier. We found
the porter, who, like myself, lived on
the bank premises, at home, and we
were not long in packing up, in suita-
BILE cases, a sum of seven thousand
pounds in gold, and about two thous-
aud in bank of England paper. For
the conveyance of this to the railway
station, we summoned two cars from
an adjoining stand. As these cars
drove up, l ran somewhat quickly out
of the bank, and, In so doing, came
against tall man who was passing
along the foot path. He had hand
kerchief muff1ed about his throat,
and his coat buttoned up to his chin, |
in addition to which he held a red
silk handkerchief to his nose and
mouth. The inolemeney of the night
sufficiently accounted for these pre-
cautions, but. as l jostled him, his |
hand was for an infant cast aside, and |
| saw his face. It was one not easily |
1t was handsome and yet
repugnant. However, / was busy.
He passed on, and I thought no more
about it. The manager and myself
got into one car, and the cashier and
porter occupied the other, and We
drove as rapidly as we could through
the town to the railway station. |
When We arrived there the mail train |
for NJ was just about to start. |
The station master was on the plat |
form, and few words from MIR, Will |
mot explained what we required.
Il see, sir; Mr.. Dandy wants q COM
partment to himself. / think all the /
carriages are more or less occupied. I
will put on another carriage; but we
are already past time, anu the mail
guard will not allow delay, so that I |
cannot break the train. / shall be
compelled to put on the carriage be-
hind the guards van"
To this we raised no objection, as
the one important question was to get
to M with the required relief.
The extra carriage was quickly
hooked on and duly screwed up, and
tail lamps put upon it. The cases of
gold were put in upon one of the
seats, and | took my place. opposite
them, wishing my friends good night.
The train began to move rather slow
", when caught sight of two men of
about equal height, who hurried from
> waiting room across the platform
coward the train.
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