The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-16
"A CLEVER TRICK.
Trying TO Save q Bank Clerk and In
Reality Helping a Swindler.

Trying to Save a Bank Clerk and In
Reality Helping Swindler.
Aoueer story is told of a Liverpool bank
officer who received private letter from
lis friend. member Of a London banking
firm. 1t Is said that one of their employees,
the son of their highly esteemed cashier
q luan who was probity itself-had gone
away, with several thousand pounds OF Sc
cnrities. If the SOD should be arrested and
nlaced Su the PRISONS dock the old man
would ne yer lift his head again. The firm
was. therel ore, resolved to do all that lay
in its power to save its aged and valued
servant from be misery and shame which
would certainly owertake him II his son
sin became known
The writer Thoughts that IN all prooSUll-
ity the young man would call Win MS Sc
curities at the Liverpool bank, and on the
strength of his connection with the Lon
don bank try to negotiate them. III SO,
the London banker wanted me LlVerpooi
banker to seize the property ana keep IL
mill he heard from the London banker
again. to lecture the young man soundly'
buy him a ticket to New YORK ana give
him 81 600 wit,I which to begin the world
again. The London banker was going 10
Paris for fortnight, so that the Llverpool
banker didn't need to write TO MIN aoouG
the affair until that time h also wanueu
the secret kept from everybody, as lar as
possible both for the sake of me Lonaon
bank, the young mans father ana the
young man himself.
The Liverpool banker, knowing ohaU
MANY young man had gone wrong VINO
might have been saved at the proper mo
ment, decided to comply with his lrleno 3
request.
Soon after a nice, frank looking young
man of the name referred to was ushered
In to him, and, saying that he o-eslred 10
travel, explained in a constrained ana ner-
vous manner that he had some SECURITIES
on which he would like to realize. he
said he didn't understand business, anu
perhaps was going awkwardly to work,
but the ship for New York was to sail that
| day ard he was in hurry.
| In reply the Liverpool banker handed
| him the letter he had just received; AS he
read it his breast heaved with emotion,
! tears came into his eyes and be hnalIy
( burst into a fit of weeping. He made
| full confession, and the banker, after point
ing out the Nervousness OF ms CRIME, Oh
| fered to do what the letter requested Inc
young man kissed the bankers hand IN
token of his gratitude, said that he had
been foolish and wicked, and would gladly
20 to another country and redeem himself
/ The banker then gave him the Sl,ooo,
| bought him first class steamer ticket ana
| gave him dinner at the restaurant. But
! nothing he could do or say seemed to raise
the Young mans spirits. He was so sad
and broken down that the banker really
pitied him. As he babe him goodby 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 life of crime.
AT the end of the fortnight, when be sup
posed the London banker would have got
back from Paris, the Liverpool banker
wrote to him in great glee of his success IN
carrying out his wishes, and of the contrite
youth who had set sail for new scenes With
the bankers blessing.
| He got the following reply from Londo1
"You must be mad. Our cashier never
had a son. No securities are missing. Per
haps you have been sold"
1t was true. He had. The letter was
forged, The securities were worthless. lie
had thrown away 81, 900. a passage to New
York, good dinner and good deal of adj
vice upon an ingenious swindler. -Bostor
Every Other Saturday.