The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-10-21
CLEVER SNVINDLING.
How g. Liverpool Banker was
Tricked by a Confidence Man.
His Compassion f-- = >ee:niagIy Re-
pentanT sinner Costs the Nan OF
Money ~onsthiaG over
Thousand Dollars.

\ queer story iS told by the Boston
Every other saturday of i Liverpool
bank officer who r,'r,.ived'a private let
ter from his friend. = member II Il Lon
don banking Iirin II said that one Of
their cmploC.s. IA. son az their highlc
esteemed casEicr--a man who was pro-
bity itself had l.':lc away With several
Thousand p1uai, II securities. Ii the
son should b. arrested and placed in
the prisons docls the old Eiau would
never lift his head again The firm
was, tn areforc. resolved 20 do all that
lay in its power To- save its aged and
valued servant from the misery and
shame vhi.h would surely ovrrtallc
him Il his soma 81. b.-aIae known.
The writer thought that liz al proba-
bility the young man would call with
his sc .uritics IT the Liverpool bank,
and on th2 strength OF his connection
with the London bank try u negotiate
them. II ~, the London banker wanted
the Liverpool banker 20 seize the prop
erty and keep il Until ne heard from
the London banker again, 70 lecture
th" young man spunGly. Lay him a ticket
To New York and give him one thou
sand dollars with which t. begin the.
world aggin. The london banker was
going 10 Paris for i fortnight. - that
the Liverpool b2.l-r- didn't need u
write - him about the affair until that
time, lie also wanted the secret kept
from everybody, Is Gar as possible. both
for the sake of the London bank. the
young mans father and the young man
himself. The Liverpool banker. know
ing that many q young man had gone
wrong who might have been saved at
the proper moment, decided to comply
with his friends request
Soon after = Eicc, franl;-loOhing
young man OF the rame referred 10
vas aSheFcd IN % him, and, saying that
he desired 70 travel, explained in
constrGined and nervous manner that
he had some Sc critics on which he
would like to realize. lie said he
didn't uIcdCra-ard business, and per
haps was going &w!,warlly 10 work,
but the ship for New York was II sail
that day and he was in Il hurry In re-
ply the Liverpool banker handed him
the letter he had Just received. As he
read II hiS breast hc:vcd with emotion.
tears came int3 his eyes, aui he finally
burst iato 4 lit OF weeping. lie made a
full confession. and the banker, after
pointing ont tn Nervousness Of the
criE1c. Offered TO d. what the letter re-
quc5tcd. the young man kissed the
La1klG'4 hand in token of his graft
tui.. sail that h had been foolish and
wicked ana would gladly go 70 an
other country AID red scm himself The
banker tisga gave him the Thousand
dollars. bought him a iigst-claas steamer
ticket and gave him y dinner Al the
restaurant i!uJ nothing ne could DO
or LAY seemed 10 raise the young mans
spirits. He vas SO sad and broken
down that the banker really pitied him
As he hade him soOd-by from the ships
side the hard old man could not re
strain hi, tears as he thought of the
young and rcpentant sinner he had
saved from a life Of crime.
vt The end of the fortnight. when he
supposed the I.oni0n banker would
have got ba-k from Paris. the Liver
pool banker wrote 10 him in great glee
Of iiis success IN carrying out his wishes
ana of the contritc youth who had set
sail for new scenes with the bankers
blessing. lie got the following reply
from London:
You must b. mad Oar cashier
never had a son. No securities are
missing. Perhaps you nave been sold"
1t was triie. lie had. The letter was
forged. Tho securities were worthless.
lars 4 passage u New York. a good
dinner and a good deal of advice upon
an ingenious swindlcr.