The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-17
sPNNER's SORROW.

SPINNER'S SORROW.
TEE oss OF THE i7,OOo--FAcILrTT 'oF AT
STR. AcrEoN-HERMANN's TR1CKs-AN OLD
STORY ABOUT THE TREASURER.
The recent loss OF a money package in the
treas Try department has Seen improved by
the u ewspaper correspondents in all sorts of
ways. For instance, the Washington envoy
of th q Cincinnati Gazette writes consolingly
and says: Gen. Spinner is the SUBJECTED
niue b coincidence Just now, as $47, sos belong
ing 30 the National Park Bank, New York,
has quietly and 1ysteriously dis
ken According to the letter of his bond
w hich fortunately is not SO imporSu-
nat ey binding as that of Shylock's-t'
tire, Isurer OF the United Esates is personally
res Ponsibie tor all sua.s OF money unac-
counted for. nee before, a trusted subcr-
dirlate appropriated large amount of
Uricle Sans funds, but congress exculpss. d
th's treasurer from all blame, and paid the
deficit out of the peoples money. So it
may be induced TO show like consideration
the honest, crusty ola official, who
has presided for IA years with so much
honesty and integrity over the treas
urer's portfolio. 1t is difficult to see how
such large amount of money could have
been taken without immediate detection as
the system of counting, and recounting
and comparing, passes through several Off
ferent hands, and the footings must neees-
| sarily tally perfectly throughout the proc
ess. A letter published in morning pa
per, evidently from some banker, while
deprecating che ultimate less to somebody.
says that for fully five orsix years past vsri-
Gus banks here and elsewhere have had &C
casion to complain that packages of money
sent by them, after most careful
counting to the treasury department for re-
1 n r-ar1fin ho-r hon ~ IA
officials in change. In several instances pack
ages have been counted by three different
persons, with known correct results, and the
department has sent back notice of shortage.
and as there was no redress for the banks, all
deficits had to be made good by them. Gen.
Spinner himself acknowledges that 1t is a
much more difficult thing than one imag
ines for small salaried clerks with growing
families and increasing wants to deliberately
cast $500 note into oblivion, by punching
holes in it, or cutting it irretrevably in half,
and knowing that il must soon
FEED TEE FURNACE FLAMES,
when 1t could so easily be slipped out and
applied to individual necessities, and the
blame of shortage be charged to the banks.
One dollar notes do not seem to possess
such intrinsic value, and piles of them are
daily consigned to the "burnings," but the
greater the amount, the more quslms o.
conscience are experienced in being party
TO their destruction. Some theorize that
outsiders may have spirited the money
away. While Hermann, the great
prestidigitateur, was here, he visited the
various counting rooms, and before the very
eyes OF the employees concealed packages of
money, and made gold and silver and green
backs peep out of pockets hitherto supposed
only to belong to honest persons, until the
clerks were in the highest state of fear and
Excitement, and were only reduced to state
| OF quiet by learning who the MANY wizard
was. On the other hand the Capital makes
game OF the General, and says that the fol-
lowing story, told by the sinfple-minded
old gent. illustrates bis style of looking into
a milestone. II he has to track
that forty-seven thousand dollars
we fear the money will never, no never,
be heard of again. But here is his little
story: He said"-we quote from our cotem-
porary, The Republican-"that an incident
in his life suggested to him last night the
hope that the thief might voluntarily return
him the stolen money. IL is this: One fall
when coming to attend a session OF congress
he was rec uested, in New York, by Augustus
Schell, to take charge of a lady friend of his
also coming to Washington. When chang
Ing cars at Baltimore a thief got between
himself and his charge. and another one
pushed closely up beside him. As soon as
he sat down he missed his wallet. Hor-
ace Maynard, who happened to be in the
same car, was appraised of the fact by the
general, and the two walked forward to-
ward the stair, where the general thought
the thieves were sitting. In the presence of
Mr.. Maynard he charged them with picking
his pocket, and Immediately one of them
jumped up and ran toward the rear of the |
ear, but before the general could catch him |
he jumped from the platform, and in the
confusion the other jumped off the front |
platform. On arriving at his hotel here, the |
general hung up his overcoat with others,
and in the morning he discovered |
his wallet in an outside pocket, |
safe aud sound. the thieves, in |
escaping, having replaced it there. And so !
good fortune may attend him again." That |
Is sweet. Now q wording with thimble- |
full of brain sees thst the dear old duck did |
an many have done since and before-put his |
own wallet in his own overcoat pocket in |
the hurry and confusion Of buying ticket |
for fair friend. We have done that more |
than once under like circumstances. But |
we never went about charging other people |
with picking onr pockets, and soaring inno- |
cent youths out Of rear ends of cars, to the !
great risk of their necks. Dear ola perse- !
euted saint. Why don't be take some sooth |
Ing syrup and have hot brick put TO the |
small of his financial back?
Delaware man marriad n wOutan ba- |