Richland beacon., 1888-11-17
more favor than .lc masculirr coi.

street friends, nlId after looking at
the ticker and liking Il little about
the market. care to the point with
the remark:
"Oh. | say, J,,nes. have an order
for YOU. lave two thousand
pOunds-that IL. ten thousand dollars
OfyOur monev-to invest. had it
sent to me here, and | wish You would
buy me ten Chicago and st. Anthony
first mortgage bonds. Can yoI have
them for me tomorrow about noon?
Ill bring YOU q certified check. for !
know howpartitular You fellows are.
What will they COST
The order WAS accepted forthwith
and executed. and Mr. Wcstbury
having received Il memorandum OF
the amount he was to pay for them
took his depart are He only went
however, far enough to drop into
the office of II nei"hboriug firm.
where his business assumed the form
of an order to sell ten thousand OF
the same st. Anthony bonds.
Il bought them. YOU know. be-
cause fancied them as an invest
ment. but | concluded not to keep
them. BY the way" he continued.
Il want to bay II draft with the
money, and ] wish YOU would Yet
me notes for the amount. I'll bring
the bonds in to morrow at noon,
and shall he IN Il hurry.
This order, too, was accepted and
executed without question, and Mr..
Westbury passed in turn To every
brokerage house in the street
which had becn honored with his ac-
Gnaintance, and with which he had
paved Il way ~ his desultory specu-
latiOns. To cnc set of brokers lie
gave orders tc buy various amounts :
of diversity of bonds or other
securities, anrJ i'm each ease gave
orders to ano. her set for the sale ot
the same, experimenting il by II
polite request that the proceeds be'
handed him in cash when he delivered
the bonds on the ensuing day.
Westbury i,adc his appearance
about noon al the office Of the first
firm on his carefully prepared list,
and took possession of his bonds,
rendering in = ;vment check OH his
bank with the usual pleasant chat.
he left, and t-rn flew like the wind
TO the offices - the brokers who had
sold the same honds for him.
Having delivered the securities
and received ;lle money, which he
carelessly thrt;st in his pOcketbOOk.
he departed U1ly to carry out the
like programme with two other
houses to whias, he had intrusted his
precious orders. In short. by this
plal of obtaining bonds
and securities paying for them with
his certified cl.ecks and Immediately
receiving cash for them from the
houses which he had directed to sell
them. he beca me possessed vii hin a
couple of hours of something like
5000, 900 in United States notes:
and although he was treading on IA
and was liable to destruc-
tion at any moment, it was after
ward n subje:: of remark among the
victims that Mr. Westbury's man-
ner was never more charming and
friendly, nor did his blue eyes ever
wear n more honest look and whole
sOuled expression.
He had almost completed his
round, an! vas in fact delivering to
the last of his victims $4,000 worth
of a certain issue of bonds which he
had but q moment before obtained
from another firm in return for his
check, apparently bearing the ,ertiti-
catiOn of tie bank. when one of those
which sometimes over
take the aS.est strategists almost
upset his calculations.
The firm IN question had but the
preceding day sold precisely that
of tie bonds in question,
and when NJ. Westbury handed the
head of the house his package of
bonds. the l;tter passed them on to
his head clerk fOr examination before
giving Westt,.ry the proceeds.
Now the clarx vas a sharp young
ster, and as soon as his eyes fell
upon them h, recognized from the
that they were the identical
bonds which his firm had sold the
day before to another house i'm the
street"
Without word he slipped out the
back door of the office and ran to
their Office. In answer to his hurried
he learned that the young
stranger had but a few moments be-
fore taken the bends away, having
paid for them with certified check.
A messenger was at once dispatched
to the bank, and the clerk flew back
TO his own Office, full of suspicion.
Westbury, however, had already
taken alarm at sne delay, and plead
ing that he was ;ate in keeping an
engagement, anJ asking the broker
to put the money to his credit, he
called cab and drove away just as
the breathless clerk came back.
OF course the messenger came back
with the news that Westbury had
drawn all his money out OF the bank
the day before, and the news quickly
went around the street. Some of the
firms which had been victimized with
the forged certificatiOn kept silence
with regard to their loss. but enough
was known TO show that tie clever
scamp had made away with the sum
of money which has been mentioned.
The last known of Mr.. Westbury
was that be discharged his cab u few
blocks away from Wall street, and
the entire detective force failed to
trace him. 1t was perhaps Il salts