New-York tribune., 1874-12-29

sum without assurance that was all right
Again they were refused and were referred 10 me'
had heard part OF their conversation wnicn was TIN
phatic. asked them to sit down aud eApaiu ~""' wa"
the matter. One of them sad. IN SUBSTANCE na'o
here two checks on your bank. aud they refuse 10 p
them" sotl "Let me l'Ok at them, gentlemen
They handed them to me- and looked at them ssid'
uNow ccntlcmen Won know these are very large sums
NJ money" One OF the gentlemen present added, rms
Ia not largo sum-" i said, "$275,9c0 we consider in
Ncv.York to he a pretty large sum-" He answered.
1--WE handle larger sums than that" sa'd' i"ere S
courtesy due between Geatencn aud there IS Ger
tain obligation which every owes TO the community
in handling large sums Of money, and on that
general ground ask you to deutfy yourselves Simply
that may be sure that not paving forged chccA.
The answer was something like this. that they hau
reason for wanting to be identified, ana uecnueu W
do co. I tu q corner, because couiu ho' '"'' !"
recognise the right OF any TO maintain DIS t"oogo
he wanted to- and they had the right 70 oeu"uu ,n1
payment OF tue checks The only ground on wh'en
coud refsc WAS TO say that the checks were forgeres
looked at them very carefully and was assured that
the sicpatures were correct said. How DO you pro-
pose to use money! II you are going TO use IN
bank it will relieve OF all embarrassment" one
OF them said he was. elid "Tnen have this checK
serAed and save oil this trouble. he assented ana
directed the check be certified then sad turningt 10
the other man. who had the si0.Oo check How do you
want this 2" He said 90" want 1t tomorrow morning In
money" had this that ii the certified check
was deposited In another bank, anything wrong Wouu
be discovered. and so said would agree to that IL
was exceptional-the whole thing The next morning
the two gentlemen In together and without any
words s,id "Pay this check" The check was pad,
and tho men went out had spoken to the Policeman
Mr. McDougaL whose duty among the banks TO
follow this man and see IL he was respect
able man. Mr. McDougal followed him, came
back in about 20 minutes. and informed me that
the man to whom the s15OOo was paid went from our
bank w the Park Bank, went to the officers room and
had some conversation there. then went TO the note
teller ard paid a note lie then went down the street
into the Equitable Insurance building, and went up1n
the elevator. There the policeman lost him. ithen
directed our assistant cashier TO go to the PARK BANK
and II quest an to confidential note that gave
him. in order to that the check was paid to
OIL honest man. He back and reported 70 me nat
the man named King, and that he bad been post
master or something OF the kud in Washington. /
directed assistant cashier to make
memorandum of the name. in case It might
be needed. Somehow, I cannot now recolleet
how the ulme Of the Northern Pacific Railroad was
brought up in connection with this man. said go TO
that off { aud see il the gentleman is there" The
rocc o.iccr went there and came back, and reported
that the a.njlenan sitting there reading. then
dismissed TIE su,jct from my mind. Having certlned
the check Of sG50OO the next point was TO ascertain
how 1t was paid. found on inquiry that the Marine
Bank OF New-YUrk sent it to tue Cearing'house re-
auesed assistant cashier TO go down to that bank
ana ask the officers whether tho person to whom the
check was given was respectable person. and whether
they knew him. The word came back thatit was very
respectable man; that they knew all about him. and
would tell lis necessary. That disposed Of the subject
with regard to those two checks. There were other
smaller checks OF t9C0o and $4,000 but do not think
can tell how they paid. l never saw Mr.. King
until that time We had discounted any notes for
Irwin Tie $l1GO0 must have been paid in notes over
the counter have recollection whatever Of 1t.
should that the two mon who presented the large
checks, S275OVO and s11500O, stout, bury men.
Neither was characterized by nything striking except
the stoutucss. They well kept men, Ny power Of
delneaton is such that should not to venture to
depict them before grave a Committee. think
should remember OF them If saw him. think one
was a little shorter than the other, and that one
was younger than the other think Mr. King appeared
to be older than the other think he little
more concatory and that the other moro abrupt.
think 1t the large one who spoke OF dealing In
large think 1t must have been year after that
that two gentlemen came into the office. One was o
citizen aud he said he wanted to identify General or
Colonel King to me- Mr. Clark. the assistant cashier
said 1t was necessary identify him at a as We
had seen him before. I looked at him and identified
him as the same person who the check before
OF course knew time Of those transactions that
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was try
ting to get O subsidy, but my attention
was not called to IL directly. In all my actions In re-
gard to these checks only desired to protect the
American Exchange Bank. The Inference formed In
ny mind from the fact that Mr. Kiog was the Postmas
ter at Washington unpleasant one. think
that to pursue any inquiries to the train OF thought
that transactions led me to s pushing me into
sea OF cOIjectures where don't belong,
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