The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-18
A ROLL OF BILLS.
And q Curious Coincidence Con-
nected with Its Loss.
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Hartford tConn.i Times.l
The following-an old affair now--was
told to the reporter of the Times yester-
day by welLknown and highly re-
spected citizen. There are obvious
reasons for not giving tho names of the
parties interested, but all are still living
in this city. The incidents related hap
pened four or five years ago. but have
never before been published. An elderly
gentleman, the senior member of a large
wholesale business firm, on one Saturday
afternoon, drew for his wife 800 in bank
notes from his banker. He placed the
money in his vest pocket When he got
home the lady asked him for the money,
and on feeling in his pocket for it he
found that it was gone. He then remem-
bered that on his way home he stopped
at market and made some purchases,
and that in paying for them he had taken
the money from the vest pocket in which
he had placed the $lOO. 1t being late,
he let the matter rest until Monday, when
he went to the market-man and said: "Mr.
-, when I was here Saturday night l
dropped roll Of bills amounting to
$780," The market-man answered: "Well,
come to think of it a man was in just
after you and made some purchases. He
felt in his pocket for money and acted as
if he had lost something. Then looking
down he saw roll of bills on the floor,
picked it up and counted it. There was
Just 800, and from it he paid me for what
he had bought" The market-man fur
thermore did not know the man, except
by sight, but said that he often came into
the place to buy meats. A watch was
kept for the mans return; and finally, on
the following Saturday, he came to the
market. He then learned of the ether
mans loss, and found out the name of
the loser, to whom he at once went. He
found him in his Office, and handed him
800, with the following explanation:
On the previous Saturday he had been in
Windsor, where he was engaged in doing
some professional work for a wealthy
citizen OF that place. 1t was getting late,
and he was preparing to return to Hart
ford, when his employer came in and
handed him $l00 in bank bills, asking
him to hurry, as the carriage had hardly
time to reach the station. Hastily thrust
ing the money, as he supposed, into his
vest pocket, he returned by the train to
this city. When he went into the market
above referred to, he naturally felt for
his money, and missing it, looked around
for it, and saw the roll on the floor, which
he supposed was his own. He had used
it during the week, and only on that day
had he put on his working coat. While at
work he wanted match, and in feeling
through the pockets of his coat to his as
tonishment he found the $100 he had put
there instead of into his vest pocket. AS
soon as possible he went to the market to
see if any one had lost that sum of
money, and this led to general settling
all around. lie did not know at the
time that he had been suspected of the
theft, and did uot imagine that be was in
danger of arrest. But, had he not found
the money as he did, he would have been
arrested on the following Monday. Awk-
ward as the situation was, it would have
been very difficult for this gentleman to
make any satisfactory explanation, and
artist though he was, he would probably
have gone to Jail.