Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-01
Received by Banking Firm
of Ball, Hutchings & Co.,
in PLACE OF GOOD SOFT MONEY
A Package Which Contained twenty-five
Thousand Dollars In Paper Money Riaed
Willis En- Route From New York 10 Galveston.
The Bundle Was Opened a, ons end, lis
Contents Removed, the Brown Paper
inserted and seaIsd--Sllsk lob.

Galveston. Tex, Nov. Specially
II developed to-day that the banking
house Of Ball. Hutchings X CO.. were the
recipients Of similar package MS that
received by the Island City Savings bank
yesterday, with this difference that their
package wns from the National City
bank OF New York and was supposed TO
contain $4,000. This package. was re-
ceived In the same cxnrcss as the Island
City Savings banks package uf $1,000.
Al $40 o'clock yesterday lpOudng as
soon as checked over u was delivered to
Ball, Hutchiucr 4 Co. and rcpeipted for
by their teller and placed IN the vault,
Yesterday evening about 1 o'clock it
was brought from the vault opened by
the teller in the presence of The cashier
and found to contain nothing but strips
Of brown paper. cut the slice OF hnuls
notes neatly banded together with rubber
bands and placed inside the original wrap
pers The package was done M In one
bundle, the length and Width OF II hill
and about eight inches thick, Both
packages felt Ike bundles Of Old money
nnd the teller before opening ID remarked
those fellows have sent US uld bills.
| The package had been opened at one end,
| the money distracted and the paper neatly
/ substituted. The end wAs then neatly
| rcf0dcd and scaled with q plain oval
| seal with nothing hut the word "Bank'
| on Il. As soon MS Ball. HuiclingH \ Co,
made the startling discovery they at
once notified the agent of the Wells
| Fargo FNpress company aud also wired
| the Natonnl City bank, at New York,
Of the fact Tho agent of To express
company came Rt once. carctuilf rNnmin-
ed the package and promptly reported the
loss 10 the head officials OF tho company.
| a. Christensen, superintendent VI tho
Wels-Fnrgo Express company and his
assistant q. A. Taft arrived This morn
| u..tta ttaftfNtpl "a
vigorous investigation. AZ l3u to-day
they. with the hank officials held Il con
ference AZ Ball, Hutcliiugs & Cos Of
flee but nothing new WAS developed and
tho papers were delivered TO the olllcinla
of the expreas comnany who receipted
for them.
Boil, packages left New York on the
25. aud Superintendent Christensen said
they were carried by Mells-FHrgn X
Go. over the Erie from New York 20
Cincinnati, they were delivered 10 the
Adams Express company there, they cnr-
ried them over The Louisville aud Nash
VILE to New Orleans. and Their re-
turned them to the Wolls-Iihrgo comp.
pany, In whose possession they remnined
until they arrived via the Southern Pa
cinc, nj Galveston These two PACKAGE
are the only ones robbed, aa lar
as known, said Mir. Christepson, and We
/ have tclcgraphcd the company at New
| lnTk. AMI an HAi'llN ~ uUNNh NiANANN Nt''
, capture he DIS will q rikc'. IN.
general belief Is that the 10000 aud N,
sos. 600 were riBed by The samc person
aud that II was done either IN Sew Nurh
or IN one Of tho transfer offices On route
Whoever did it ~ Il slick artist aud th,
banks or express company nN out 500
COO Ball, Hutchlngs q Co. received NV,
$4,000 packages this morning from IN,
National City bank OF New York, on,
By the Wclls.Furgo Express, the olhel
by the Pacific Express company TIL
package that came by the Mnlls-Fpry
Express on being opened was found e
been touched, but on opening the pncl,
ago received from the Pacific EXpres
: company it was found % be 5000 over
That cSoned up the matter and the hri
was happy.