Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-22
A saART TRICk.

A queer story 10 told Of 3 Liverpool
bank o1sial vko re tiy reeefv
privste letter froo his friend, member
Of 9 London banking frm- II IL said
that one Of their employees, the soa OF
their highly esse< med cashler-a man
vbo 10 probity issslf-hAi gone away
With several thousand poands In securi-
ties IL the $50 should be arrested and
placed in Q priseoer's dock, the old nan
voGld never lift bis head again The
| irn was. therefore. resolved 20 do all
that lay in its power 70 save its aged
aud valued servant from the misery
and shame which would certainly over
take him II bis sons sin should become
known
The writer thought that in all proba-
bilisy the young man call with bis sscu-
rites 81 the Liverpool bank, and, on the
strength Of his connection With the
London bank, try TO n Rotiste them.
IL 50, the l. ndoa banker wanted the
Liverpool banker 20 seize the property
and keep IL until be heard from the
Londos banker again; 20 lecture the
Young man so7ndly. buy him ticket TO
New York, and give bin 500 WITH
which to begin the world again. Tie
London banker vas eoisQ TO Paris for q
II IOftulkIts ~ t1aA t1C Obb MI
didH't need to write him about the affair
until that time. He also wanted the
secret kept from every body, 50 far as
possible. for the sake Of the London
bank, the young mans father and the
yoons man himself.
Ihs Liverpool tanker, knowing that
many q young man had gone vrsng who
might have been saved at the proper
moment, decided to comply with his
friends request.
Soon after Rios. frank looking young
man Of the name referred TO was ushsred
in 10 him. and, saying that heidesired to
travel, explained ia . constrained and
nervous manner that he had some So
curities on which be would like to re-
alizs. He said be didn't understand
business, and perhaps vas going svk-
wardiy TO work, but the ship for New
York vas TO sail that day and be was IN
q hurry.
In reply the Liverpool banker handed
him the letter he had Just received. As
he read IL his breast heayed with emo
ton, tears came into his eyes, and he
finally burst into q 1T of weeping. He
made full confession, and then the
banker. after pointing oat the heinous-
ness Of his crime, offered to de what
the letter had requested. The yoang
man kissed the bankers hand in token
Of his gratitude, said he had been both
foolish and wicked, and that he would
gladly 90 TO another country and redeem
himself.
The banker then gave him the $1,000,
bought him first GLASS steamer ticket,
and gave him q champagne dinner at
the restaurant. Bot nothing he could
say or do seemed to raise the yeung
mans spirits. He was 80 sad and broken
down that the banker really pitied him.
As he babe him good by from the ships
side the hard old man could not restrain
his tears as he thought of the young and
repentant sinner he had saved from a
| life Of crime.
At the end Of the fortnight, when he
supposed the London banker would
have got back from Paris, the Liverpool
banker wrote TO him in great Rlee of
his success in carrying oat his wishes,
and Of the contrite youth who had set
sail for new scenes with the banker
blessing.
He got the following reply from Lon
don:
You must be mad. Our cashier never
had son. No securities are missing
Perhaps you have been Sold"
Ii was true. He had. The letter was
forged. The securities were worthless.
He had thrswn away $1,000, a passage
TO New York, q bottle of champagne, a
good dinner and q good deal of advice
upon an ingenious swindler.