The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-14
TRICKS IN BANK NOTES.
TALES TOLD BY AN OLD MAN IN
THE TREASURY.

apparently No Limit 10 tho sieSer
Tricks af CaHntsrfsiters-Capita Piece
of Wslkm,nship - The Experienced
Eve af TIA. Clerk.
Ther. l. wlit.-h airt,i, >harr-eSrl little
man IN ia treasury Who lEt- ta,ii nIh' ot the
features vi tia rlre, fasl Nsfif~,. " hlle not
readily ;aaae,itt t,ta,rilrf.aft ErituFS, r. can,
un pa, s. III ttl,H II il bitter # lhtl alattlon,
rrn'i. tuui,.lf an extremely nter,stla. pr
SEtttr', iui~fHu Ia as h. i, ii perfect store
iftt~, oi tIhg,t,,t,~, VIII h h.. n tteS with all
the t;ttni al IAN pcumrII lart rdc"itt' III.
Int" THIS ..rntlcnatl1' Lalitts Speaking meta
pt."ri ally, | taWaHet IL fail, and ii ~
sltltsrl no iartp nlar effort To- ntks the 0tli-
ral tallativ, II wa> in,l., ting at the
nlnulent 4. >tafious :ltt io,fe an.t TN, cir
ctliIrrtrilco gave III L. tl, first aresettr.
Il tell you, h., salt, ~ttpan i, apparently no
limit % tin rL.vcr ticks ut stjiutsftritefS.
Ju>t l@.k at TIL, tl,t.' Il ttatth~s deceived
over luiptrpt is"tt' Ia forr it same into
ON i.ah't,. know ior Il tact that IL vas az
'"pt'd a.. I'tlih' hy "A hank tcltsr In high
s,aulii,-, Gi4t set tn, in,t,nt CERTAIN y0un,
o
lafh'l.aa i4ll uI4n IL, lp. tl.t.et,d rs
aultl,l'rs ,irtat,r. Thc heat HorI nlall,lip
"n this TIL! r,mitl, M. If II r,tsc wll,h ,fnla
I" our nothe s"lg tihc ,t-,b \ uut.ticltcr
had ,tut up ii number 1T SltU notes on SIX
~lnGa'.' t.lnks, The copy u>,,i va, ON IL
hulk viii mad, it, siuo note, ia this style.
TN nn' rild III the paper was an engraving
81 II ship, tl'' sartttrn Of which ran b.twttn
two ,li'at" iluiriSh,'s underneath the worl
"tilo,' which was the first word If the Lalue
OF the bank of i>Ntt; Us tor instance, Tho
National Bank Of thu ii"puLlt', or tho First
National bank, The fraud would have been
II particularly neat one had the eounterf,ter
mah Ia, notes PAYABLE ly the same bank
from viii Il h. obtained his origin spe intn
Instead III i'lHs sufficiently shicwl, however,
l"aN al hlnrsli OF that prccaution, ur pei
haln thtM-l an excess Ut caution, lac ma,lN
item payable by six other hanks. Each II
tht% latter institutions had one distinctive
feature al the face Of their 800 notes Tho
lali anu OF the vessel, instead Of running ie.
tween tls two minnie ilourishcs barely
toa hetl t.i' outside Of the flourish nearer Ia,
tp"t The mote, AMI approached closer to tho
word Tie ~ tho sixteenth Of an inch OF
our Tho r"lat'rieit, which was a capital
iter" at Workmanship with the one exception
h'nt,orrA, deceived merchants easily AMI
lecI,,l many Oilers II, wall The moment
the "otr, passed through TN hand, Of Il lynx
Eyed y'unS lady at the treasury she dis.
."N'ioi ti"ir spurious quality in a twink
I'm:
yotNG NoMEN'S EYES
Nv Must H. difficult, then" | remarked,
ITO h".l"il. Your clever female tl,rkst
How d. tin'J ,,hate til, in eyes"
ny c.M~tmtiy running over money. To
casually wat h tIc>o women at work yol
would pn,laily imagine that their SOLE aim
wa .imiiy 10 count the money "a, rapidly as
t'~, lAle Not ST. 4 clerk will take a pile Of
bill, tIsItly Fastened together by rubber
btlbl', ,si'' without so much rs luu,tllns the
tastealnss, shc will begin to count at "A
Lightning rate hy merely turning ov,r quickly
tht nplsa light hand corner IT each note
stlll, though Size had only such a small pur-
ton OF ti~ note for her guido, she Win dis
cover eotnieiicit readily. LIT no rebate
little Incident which HAPPENED while the
Seventh regiment was ia the city. Some of
the boys, Among them paying teller from
Nc" io'h bank, paid us II call booking very
elegant IN their tasteful uniforms. Tiny
were engaged for several moments In watch.
Ing the clerks count MONEY in the manner
l.~rrilpd
suddenly one Of the Young women
snapped a note from the package which >ho
was running over Aftcr she had thrown 1t
aside III an apparently careless manner, |
picked 1t NJ AMI handed it t. the visitor, for
Inspection II wa, passed from ON t. another
without slt'ltlnt any special comment Final
~ II reached the man whom knrV 10 h, a
paying teller. he examined it for "A mllp ut
Alrt returned 1t to my possession without "A
"oii. asked hnn ii he had noticed any.
Thing peculiar in regard to il He replied in
!he negative. And yet it was un ingenious
counterfeit, rs the experienced eve # the
sIerk had detected the instant She had turned
lp II corhtr Of it
SPLITTING NOTE IN Two.
a II Iu, i'lr, | asked, FOR a note to be-
10 split III tNn a. To- show both -bt j, If It IN
tact;'
"Oh, yrN, aud 1t /, very easily done. You
procure II certain Kind # gum, and paste tho
note face downward To- "a piece If pappr
Then yot! rat| another piece If paper over
the back ut thu note. Ey rurctuIl, pulling
tile two pieces apart tin fiber Of tho note will
split, nhi what look, like u difficult tlausar.
tun v easily accomplished Nothing, how.
ever, cam bc gained BY the operation. Ii ono
halt Of such a bill were Forwarded TO us for
We would return 10 the sender
one half Of IT. face value ShatI4rs indulge
ia II ittlr game which consist, If
ithlnk notes, That l., they will make nine
notes out 1T eight, each note hiut pie,yd
once. When you come to measure them you
viii find that they are precisely une.ci,lth
shorter than they shodli be- Merchants ara
readily dulel ~ them, but rarely a bank
cashier
what i, the rub rL.;ise tothc rel, tuption
Of mhtiIdt,l Curl,iIgy:'
Nv, redo, IA nothing smaller than ont.b1lf
Of ahot, and va pay in proiottiun to the
quantity Ut the mote s,nt except whore there
Is only on,-t,lith missing. In the latter cas-,
We Pay tht tau fac value Ii you were to
send uh IA nut' dollar note ON, quarter of
" Inch had tttn torn away, We would giye |
you seventy live cent, for 1t. II within six
lnontls, not later, you succeed in Recover
Ms tht missing part, We would, un its lrrscn.
tatoh, pay you twenty-five cents NOR. sup
l'os, you brought us u shred If Il note, with |
the cd.r,S >insed, and asserted that it wi, the
Of a ltp bill which hal artiirltllly |
bccn destroyed ty tlrc. We wuuId request
you t. naEr an affidavit III support ut Your
story. If yon could still further -uh~taitiate
} onr settlement 10y the atlitiaslts If several
reputable lerS'rls who had witnessed the ,lp I
strurion 81 tie I'LL, we would then ,,rpt
tle lr..l md itikn rnl s1laI ~ -. /