The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-05
INTO A FORCER'S DEN.
Banker |, \. Perry Receivers $1,000
Stolen From His Bank.
Suspicious Aroused While at His
Desk in the Continental National,
He Quietly Forces a Schiller Build
ing Occupant to Disclose Confed-


He Quietly Forces a Schiller Build
ing Occupant to Disclose Confed-
crates.
From the Chicago Herald.
Had the Continental Bank of this city a
less sharp and determined man for vice
president that institution would to-day
doubtless have on its books an item repre-
senting the loss of 81 1000, and the date of
the loss would be marked June %, last
Friday. Not less interesting than the
manner in which the vice president, Isaac
n. Perry, defeated a forgery, ran down
the forger and secured the sum obtained
from his bank on falsifed check, is the
discovery which he incidentally made
that in the business center of the city is
a den represented to be business Office
which is evidently used by embezzlers,
forgers ndothers of that species.
Mr. Perrys desk in the Continental
| Bank is so located that he gets view of
nearly everyone that comes into the bank.
| The tendency TO scan the faces of those
who transact business at the different
windows has grown into a habit with
him, and hint. in connection with any
person who does business with the bank
even rarely enables him to recall a men
tai picture of the individual at pleasure.
Suspicious RIGHTLY AROUSED.
This faculty stood Mr.. Perry. in good
stead last Friday. No man in the bank
ing business is said to have quicker eye
than he. This eye of his noticed some
thing wrong about 2 o'clock Friday after
noon with a check on which 5000 had
been drawn half an hour before The
paving teller was called. The check was
fDrt her SNrDfi mi and II wa nj nj
the figures on the check had been changed
from 81 900 to s., 600 The young man who
presented the check was described 10 Mr..
Perry. Il know him. he said, III take
this thing in hand myself
There was no hiring of detectives no
notifying Of police headquarters. MIR.
Perry went straight for the Schiller
building, where he knew was the Office of
the young man who had got the 5000.
The young man had not arrived at the
Schiller building. Mr.. Perry satisfied
himself, by little inquiry, that he was
not amiss as to the Justification. After
wait of ten minutes the young man ar
rived. He saw Mr.. Perry and bowed to
him. His face turned pale, and the vice
president was sure he was right. He did
not return the salutation. He was 10 no
humor for passing courtesies with a
forger.
You seem to know what I have come
for" Mr.. Perry said to the young man
with the white face.
Il do not understand you" said the
latter
Just take square look at me-" Mr.
Perry responded, and tell me whether
you see anything in my face that would
| lead you to think / am likely to stand any
trifing. Hand over that money"
4 haven't got it"
where is it them"
II have deposited it"
'Then come and draw it-right quick,
too"
There was'a glare in Mr.. Perry's eye
that was not pleasant to the young man.
The forger saw it and trem bled.
II lied, - he said, when | told you de-
posted it. have not deposited it, but
gave it to another person, from whom I'll
get it in an hour"
DETERMINED TO RECOVER THE MONEY.
The vice president felt that he was
being tritied with after all. He caught
the young man by the collar and dragged
him toward the elevator. A crowd began
to gather and the young man whispered
to MIR. Perry: Il swear that ] gave the
money to another person. Come with me
and III get it for you"
MIR Perry had at that time Just one alb
sorbing thought in his mind one fixed re-
solve, and that was not to let the forger
get out of his clutches until he could get
the banks money back, So filled was
his mind with this purpose that there was
apparently no room for the consideration
that he might, in accompanying the for
ger be on his way to a nest of confeder-
ates, from whom little mercy could be ex-
pected. Had this possibility suggested
itself to Mr. Perry he would have adopted
the precautiOn of securing police protec-
ton. But he never thought of danger
until the whole business was over. So
preQccupied was he while accompanying
the young man that he could not exactly
tell the name of the building to which
the forger took him.
The forger was not playing him false,
at least in one res poet. He took him to a
building three blocks from the Schiller
building and walked with him into the
outer room of a suite of rooms which
looked like a lawyers quarters. Stay
here for a moment" the forger said,
while go and get the money"
NO sir, you'll not get three feet away
from me until get the cash"
In an inner room Mir Perry saw two
women and man; the women We're sty-
lshIy dressed, evidently ready for a trip.
The man wore an Office coat, but there
was no trace of activity in the surround
lngs TO show that it was place where
much business was transacted. Into this
inner room went MT. FERRY Win the
forger; into the room where were the
man and the two women. IL was only
now that IL dawned on the bank vice
president that he had been more coura-
geous than cautious.
PRETENDs TO DRAW REVOLVER.
He noticed that the women and their
male companion were moving in such
way as to suggest that they We're trying
to surround him. He glanced at the
fOrger and on his face there was nothing
to suggest fight He wore an alb ect air
MIR. Perry pretended to reach for revol-
Yer in his hip pocket which was. really
empty
Young man" he. said sternly, "pll
stand no further delay
PLEASE excuse me" said one of the
women as she moved toward the door
you won't leave this room, madam,
for little while longer" said Mr. Perry.
You are rude, sir"
Give him the money" said the forger
to the woman, who wanted to leave the
room. She cast disguised glance at the
white faced young man. and produced
heavy roll.
MIR. Perry proceeded coolly to count it.
The woman protested against what she
said was an insult to her integrity, inn
piled in the counting of the roll, and once
more she said to Mr. Perry that she con-
sidered him rude.
The roll of money was found TO con-
tain the exact sum drawn from the bank,
81 ono