Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-06-21
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San Francisco News.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2Oth.-Silver
coin to per cent discount. Trade
dollars nominally 81 to SO.
Coroners' Jury yesterday rendered
verdict of deaths caused by falling
building on Saturday were accidental.
The British corvette Amethyst, IA
guns, has arrived from Mazatlan.
Johnny Tuers was held in $4,000
bail for attempting to shoot May Liv-
ingston. Happy Jack Harrington was
discharged.
Herbert E. Mann, the Boston forger,
was discharged by the 4th District
Court, the Judge stating that the
requisition was defective. Mann was
mediately rearrested on charge of
being a fugitive from justice.
At9A. NJ. O'Leary made SSth mile
in 13 minutes and four seconds. AM
ateurs up to the same time had
made 81 miles.
The case of Anthony Coolot against
the Central Pacific, to restrain the de-
fendant from paying interest on the
California Pacific bonds, has been SUBJ
mitted and Judge Morrison has taken
the matter under advisement.
A secret political organization CALL
ed the Nellie Grant Blues of young
men, which was organized during the
last Presidential campaign, in the iu-
terest of Grant and Wilson, is to be
revived for the present campaign.
The Grant Invincibles are also organ
iZing.
Alfred s. Thompson, clerk in the
First National Gold Bank, has abscond-
ed, defaulter to the bank to con-
siderable amount. He invented an
ingenious system If stealing which in
the course of six months brought him
in more than So, 900 and but for an un-
fortunate sccident would have brought
him in $500 month, or as much
more as he wanted, for an indefinite
length of time. He began on the 18th
of last December by watching his OPP
portunity and taking, unperceived,
handful of gold notes from the paying
teller's bench. He then went out to
lunch, counted the noles which
amounted to $3.50 and when he return.
ed wrote out check for $3.50, forged
the name of one of the deposilors at
the bank, and watching Lis opportu-
nifty placed it upon the paying teller's
hook among the other paid checks.
These checks were afterwards passed
to the Journal clerk who, as they had
already been paid took no more no.
tice of them and posted his ledger, ar
ranging the account of the Individual
whose name had been forged, say
Smith, so that it balanced and no dis
crepancy was therefore observable
When it came to entering up by the
pass books Thompson's plan was to
balance the account by crediting an
amount equal to that which he had
wrongfully debited so that the account
balanced correct and no one could
have told upon looking at the ledger
without investigating that all was
not as it should be. TO keep the cash
balance correct the amount that he
abstracted was entered up to the cred
it of some other depositor and these
queer operations went on from De-
cember 1875 to May 1876.
A resolution giving the boys of the
city the privilege of firing fire crackers
on the 4th of July, was passed by the
Supervisors.
Last evening at 6 o'clock a man
named Brouche was accidently killed
killed by falling through the elevator
in the National Brewery. He was
employed as matter in the Brewery.
AT ia meeting of the shoemaker anti
Coolie League last evening the follow
ing resolution was adopted: Resolved,
That it can be favored beyond doubt,
that every one of the houses who ad-
vertised not to employ Chinese en-
ployed from 100 to 400 Chinese each.
On motion a Committee to inyesti-
gate these bogus houses and present
report of their labors at the next
meeting of the League was appointed,
after which the meeting adjourned.
The Centennial base ball club has
been presented with gold badge to
be given to a member of nine who
will make the best record during their
tour. through the United States. The
Club departs Saturday next.