, 1884-04-18
PUZZLED CASHIERS.
Three Georgia Banks Pay 500 Each
to Accommodate Strangers.
A obi in Addition. Subtraction
and division" Which rs Welt
Calculated to Deceive tho
Money-Chlnger.


lhlhcon NGa.J ltleRraphl
On Wednesday night a young mnn regis
tered at Browns hotel from Chicago. An.
other young mar registered from Kansas
City. They were strangers to each other.
apparently, and to the city, in fact. The
hotel was crowded. and they were asked to
room together. They agreed, but before GO
ing to bed one of them asked Mr.. Brown
when the banks opened next morning.
We leave the young men at the hotel while
we see what was done at the banks yesterday.
About il 40 o'clock two young men entered
the Exchange bank and waited their turn.
When it came one of them asked Mr.. Cobb,
the teller, If no could give him two two-and-
arhnlf gold pieces. Certainly, and the gold
pieces were brought up. The stranger handed
over a o~ne-hundred dollar silver certificate,
which the well-trained eye of Mr.. Cobb saw
at n glance WINS genuine. He handed over
the gold pieces and s94 in currency, aud
took the certificate. Now, would you be
kind enough to give me a $50 bill for this
chnngef it is so bulky" The spirit of accom-
mediation rules high among Macon bank men,
and Mr.. Cobb agreed. He went to the vault
and got out a $50 bill and handed it to the
stranger, who put down $50 of tho change.
Just as Mr.. Cobb finished counting it the
stranger quickly placed the $50 bill on the
$50 in change and said: "If it's all the same
to you. sir, would you please give me back
the 500 bill, as the change is too heavy to
carryP Mr.. Cobb handed over the bill and
took the $50 bill and the $50 in change and
placed IL in the drawer. The two young men
walked out, and while they were closing the
front door there was n rumor of a suspicion
in a far corner of Mr.. Cobb's mind that there
might possibly be some mistake In the trans
action, but the rush OF business dispelled the
rumor.
About IL O'Clock two young men entered
the First National bank, and the reader will
hero duplicate the scene that transpired at
the Exchange bank, only substituting Mr..
w. W. WIigley, the cashier, for Mr.. Cobb,
and with this addition: As soon as stranger
No. l received his 800 bill back stranger
No, = stepped up and asked change for Il $40
bill, which was given. This was done to
aid in the confusion of tho cashier and to di-
vert attention from the previous trnnsac-
ton. After the departure of the young men
the same rumor that rambled momentarily
through Mr.. Cobb's mind found lodcment in
Mr.. Wrigley's mind, but he hurriedly yuu
over his cash and thought he was all right.
A few minutes aftef II two young men eli.
tered the Central Georgia bank, and tho
reader will substitute Maj. T. O. Chcstnev.
the cashier. for Messrs. Wriglcy and Cobb
in the Same ,cene. When the young men
left Maj. Chestney scratched his heal, and
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wa fixed in his mind that there WINS some
thing wrong. Where it was or how it was,
he didn't then exactly know. He ran over
his cash, aud was OF the opinion that he was
loser in tile sum of $50. lie telephoneI to the
Exchange bank. and was told that the young
men went there and got change in the same
manner for the 800 bill. The First National
bank responded ditto. Then Mai. Chestney
was certain that he had been victirnizsd.
Lieut.. Wylie was Notified aud searched
every hole and corner, and finally found out
that the two young men had returned to the
hotel about 1880 and Hs,;ed for dinner. On
being tod that dinner was not ready they
nskel for a lunch md paid their bill in two
d'a-half-dollar gull pieces. Then they
left Later in the evening the lieutenant
discovered that they hal boarded Henry
Calhoun's hack and were driven to the old
Macon aud brunswick station. On going
out there the men offered the hackmau IS to
be taken to Reid's station, on the other side
Of the river. This the hackman coul Int do.
and one OF them got out and walked down
tho road, while the other was let out on the
southwestern road. This is the last seen OF
taous hy tkc hickman It Is certain now
that they hive gone out Of the city. They
made a clean $50 by their days work.
The amusing part OF the transaction wa
the fun made OF Maj. Chestney by the othe.
cashiers, who thought themselves secure un.
til they balanced up cash for the day; then
they went to the major u oondole~ with him.
As n rule, our bank mon are equal to any
emergency, and are q match for many sharp
tricks employed by sharpers, but in this ln-
stance they acknowledge that they were well
beaten. OF course, the banks lose none of
this money, the cashiers always making good
any shortage that may occur.