Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-18
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HAD TOO MUCH WEALTH.
A Drummer Gets Into Trouble for Try
Ing TO Change New Bills.

Ing to Change New Bills.
I am q drummer--a Boston drummer
Two months ago, while on Western trip,
I got hank draft for 500 cashed In a
Kansas City bank. The cashier gave me
twenty brand new 81 bills. They had not
even been folded, and as slipped them In
my pocket / thought that new as they were
they would not wear me any better than
second hand ones.
That night, Saturday, I got TO Omaha
and went straight 10 the hotel and bod, says
the drummer, In the Detroit Free Press.
Next morning put on my best Sunday
clothes, brushed up my beaver and had a
shine. Then with a cigar and the gold
headed cane the firm presented me with rs
memento Of the Johnstown flood which
disaster nearly closed my trip. walked
out. l felt that my general makeup was
Just too much for the Omaha dudiDe, and
ex pected TO be observed once or twice In
Omaha, and many other Western cities,
some OF the stores keep open Sundays.
notice pair of slippers marked ~, In the
window ofa shoe store, and as they TOOK
my fancy ! walked In and told the pro-
prietor that IL they fit me I would takc
them. tried them on and they were
good fit, 80 had them tied up and rendered
one.of my new fves In payment The
proprietor took the bill, looked IT over
back and 'front.' sized me up from head to
foot, not missing tho gold headed cane in
one hand and roll of new bills In the other
Then he handed back the bill with
freezing smile and said:
Young man, you can't play that on
me-"
What's the matter ?"
am too old a bird TO be caught by
slick chap like you. DO you think I have
| Just started in business 2"
~ don't know how long you have been
In business, but would like to know what
| you are driving at.
| Young man. that bill Is counterfeit,
| nd oil With than
| He then told me that / was bad aud
| dangerous man; that he would advise me
To get out of his shop before he called the
| police, and that there had been good
many complaints about me lately. !
tried 10 show him that tho bill and were
both all right, but failed, so LEFT him
in disgust. AS | passed out ] saw
| him go back and put on his coat
and hat, but thought nothing of 1t,
| After short walk returned to the hotel
| and had just put my foot on the first step
when policeman put his hand on my arm
and remarked that he wanted me. In reply
to my question he said he had reliable evi-
dence that / was "bad one" and was
loaded with counterfeit money. BY this
| time n crowd had gathered, and up the
ing and additions TO the already large
crowd. Just as ! was being hustled into
the wagon the landlord stepped out and
told the policeman that ] was all right
| huu ne WAS HlHklUR u Dlg HllStahe
But the policeman said he had good evil
dence from respectable parties and he
| guessed there was no mistake. Then re-
porter stepped up and asked If he could do
anything for me, saying that he was u re-
porter and would see had fair play, as the
landlord had assured him was all right
i asked him to take a ride with me, aud
we all got In and drove to police head
quarters. When we got there, the officer
In charge told me was charged SitR-P.ls-
sing bog2S 6iiIs. denied the charge and
I produced my money and handed bill to
him and ono to each of the policemen pres
ent, asking them If 1t was good or bad
Well they didn't know. The reporter said
he didn't know much about money, espe-
| cially new money, but he would like to
have u few thousand like the sample At
last got the officer in charge to send four
of the men out to show the bills to city
bankers and thus decide the case at once.
| In less than twenty minutes the four men
| returned and of course each reported that
they had shown their bill to banker and
| had been assured that 1t was perfectly
good. That was what ! expected. Then
the officer was In great stew. He wanted
| to know what he could do to make it right,
etc. told him he could do nothing then,
but might later. l laid one of the bills on
| the desk and told him to treat all hands
to show that had no hard feeling thank ed
| the reporter and left the station.
| l made quick trip to the shoe store.
| The proprietor saw me coming and lodged
| behind the counter. As | approached he
begged my pardon, saying he had never
| seen so much money, and new money at
that, in one mans possession and that he
was sorry. lie said lots do not remember,
but made u dash behind the counter and
in no tine had him licked to a standstill.
One of the clerks ran for the police, and in
| very short time | was back at the station
again. They waited little WHILE but the
shoe man made no charge, so they let me
| go.
| did not sue anyone. The papers treated
mo handsomely, and on Monday did an
| enormous trade. But the smallest pur.
| chase In Omaha was paid for with a new
| five, so that left them all there and went
| away loaded with change.