The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-04
II PROPHETIC DhbAa.
Three Thousand Dollars saved To Bank
by q Dream of the Ray ing Teller. 4.

The following was taken from lips
of the paying-teller OF Il New York Bank.
bv representative Of the Sun newspaper:
ts.You know | am The paying-Ieiler in our
bank Well, about three years ago, .
man who gave his name as Albertus. am
Italian. called at the bank late in the
afternoon. about ten minutes before we
closed the doors. He had a check for
I 50 600 made payable TO John A. Jones.
one of our leading customers and stock
holders. II
''4ir Albertu= was an entinently re-
spectacle looking man. and appeared to %
deeply snnoyed when 1 uolJ him that
he would have To be Identified and prove
mis- business connection with Mr. jones'
before would give him the money. He
said he would return iii the morning.
Il went home to dinuer without think
ing again OF the matter. That night had
"a dream. I dreamL that l went down.
,eariy 10 the bank the next morning, con-
itrsrv TO nv usual custom and, happening
TO think OF th,= check, 1 locked into the
book where We Esep The 81 ashatures OF our
.:iisp5Hisrs aad EXAMINED very closely tha
SIGNATURE OF Ar.Jone Then 1 noticed
Shat hsd escaped my artention BEFORE
The signature in the book and that on
THE cheek were slightly different. 1
:, This made me suspicious, and as il
Was thsn nearly an hour before the bank
opzaed / sent the messenger up 10 MIR.
Jones house on Lexington avenue to ask
him whether he had drawn such a cheek
1 OF not The boy learned there that Mr..
Jones Ias not Ia the city. He had gons
TO Boston day or SO before Then
photographed him at his horel in that citys
and he wired me back that the check was
q forgery.
Il must have dreamed this early in
the morning for when woke up it was
90 clearly fixed in my mind that | could
not rf1ace it. .
.'Of course had no faith in the dreaIn,l
but | thought to make sure about tha
lmstter I would go down to the bank
early and so did. | looked Immediate
iy into the signature book, and, sura
enough, there was the same difference in
the signatures that had noticed in my
dream. =
Il thought this was rather more than
a coincidence. and so sent our boy UP
to. Mr.. Jones' house. There was another
point OF resemblance between my dream
and the reality He was IN Boston
The moment heard this | made up
my mind that my dream was real pres
ointment, and wirad him at his hotel,
asking about the check.
In the mean time the bank had been
opened and Mr.. Aibertus, accompanied
by a friend, came in. He was prepared
| 10 lHE NlOHrN. loA nave itf lt1r6
how wasted time venting for my reply.
Mind you. had nc real reason for re-
fusing to pay the check. The identifica-
ton was satisfactory. The friend was
Mr. Jones cashier, and he said that there
was no doubt that the check was genuine,
and that Mr.. AlbertuS had had cOnsldera-
dealing with Mr.. Jones. Still I hesi-
tated.
Then Mr. Albertus began to get un-
easy, and l got 50 nervous that could
hardly see straight. Just a. / got the
money out to pay it over a telegraph boy
came ia with a dispatch.
while 1 openedit Mr.. AlbertUs, who
seemed TO suspect something, ran away,
leaving the cashier and myself together.
The message was from Mr.. Jones. He
said that The cheek was a forgery. The
cashier was fooled, too. Ii it hadn't
been for that would have lost one years
tSalsfy. --.