Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-27

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iianco of fate had been traysrsed, and
now they sot abou. grateful task-thas
Of getting themselves and their rich
araoay ont Of England. Mac, being the
artist of tho party, and having executed
tho actual writing, drew tho sealed boz
containing the unused bills up to the
fro ard began throwing them in one by
one. In doing no be occasionally would
throw some bill more elaborate than tho
common ran on the floor beside his
chair. He had finished his task and took
from tho floor those hc had thrown
there, looked Mt them for n moment,
then crumbling them together raised
his hand TO throw them in tho fire, but
az tho devil always forsakss his frienda
at the critical moment he stopped,
smoothed out tho bills, and turning 70
tho others said: Boys, these arc per-
feet works Of art il is pity to destroy
them. " From our point OF view 1t WAS,
since it was only necessary to drop them
into the mail, and they would coin Us
thousands. Then George said, Suppose
we send them in. " The others said, "All
right, :" and our doom was scaled.
There were in the lot 10 bills Of eK-
change for SEQ, 600. A date Ind been left
Off one Of them They failed 10 notice
ii Poor fools, we had sold ourselvesl
Was this an accidentH No, it was
Nemesis. 1t was anything you want to
call 1t, but 1t was not an accident
So letter was written, the bills,
with memorandum, inclosed tho envelope
directed ard stamped and the three
fools went to Birmingham, mailed tho
letters. and then laughed over their sue.
cess In tho fight against society, felioi-
tating themselves that they had safely
trsversed the short cut to fortune. There
isno short cut by wrongdoing to fortune
AS that fatal letter slipped from their
fingers into the mailbox tho last act Of
tho deadly tragedy began. When it end
ed, the curtain fell upon us, descending
from the dock into the chill dungeons
Of Newgate, never, so far ns the sentence
was concerned, 10 emerge again.
On Tuesday morning the letter with
tho bills arrived at the bank. Follow
ing tho routine, they went to the dis
count department, were discounted and
placed to my credit. AS had balance
of 100000 when the proceeds Of the
bills were added to it it brought up the
whole to the handsome sum Of elG, 900.
When the bills arrived at the bank,
strange thing occurred. Tho fatal omis-
sion was made on an acceptance Of Bly,
denstein &c Co., great banking firm in
London. The discount clerk noticed the
omission of the date of acceptance, but
this being a mere formality he thought
it clerical error ON the part Of the
booltkoeper Of Blydenstein s. Co. He
made no report Of the matter, and it
was discounted along with the other rs
which were put away in the vaults with
the patches that had preceded It and
laid it aside until the next day, which
was Wednesday, AT half past 10 he gave
1t TO the bank messenger, telling him
when he went his regular rounds to take
tho bill to Blydenstein's and request
them to correct the omission.
At 2 p IN, on Tuesday Noyes went to
Jay Cooke s. Co., ordered 500, 600 in
United States bonds and gave them a
check on the Bank of England for the
amount. Ho was to call for the bonds
next day, Of course, after tho check had
gone through the clearing house and
had been paid.
As soon as the bank opened on
Wednesday, in order TO test il every
thing was all right, Noyes sent in
messenger with small check, and the
money was thrown out as at nil other
times without remark. And that was
complete demonstration that everything
was all right So it was then, but with.
in 80 minutes from that second the mes
songer was going to start with the bill
to Blydenstcin's for correction
This was 10 O'Clock Wednesday. The
bills had been 20 hours in the possession
Of the bank, had been discounted and
tho proceeds placed to my credit for "a
houra
Who with intellect less than an arch
angels could have dreamed the true
oombinationS First Of all, that mon bril-
liant and clever, gambling with their
hVes' could have mado such an omis-
sion, dAmning, fatal; second, if made,
that the great Bank Of England, thought
absolutely infallible by the whole world.
! conservative, supposedly cautions, world
have discounted bill for &c 900 with
tho datc out Of tho acceptance, and hay.
ing done so hold tho hill we'll On into
tho second day without discovery, and
that, too, when the firm, whose acceptance
wasaforgery was not Ice yards away So
when at 10 O'Clock ON Wednesday Mao
saw tho small check paid without ques.
tion to the messenger it seemed he had
an assurance doubly sure and a bond Of
fato that all was we'll, and that the Inst
batch of bills was packed safely away
for another three months in the vaults
Of tho bank.
SO Noycs went at onco to jaw Cooke
& Co, and as tho check had been maid
at tho bank they handed over SiOo, 600
/ in bonds to him.
Mac and George were outside. George
/ took the bonds and gave Moves eto.
600 check, and ono minute from his lony.
ing Jay Cooke g. Co. Moves was nj Tho
counter Of the bank. The cashier count.
ed out the cash to him. To WALKED ont
OF tho bank with lighter heart and
more huoyant step than ever before fo-
was not the danger all oyor and tl,a
long strain on tho nerves at an end tho
transaction complete and fortune vonS
He had never to 60 to tho bank again
They had nrrauorcH 60 ,,.... y y,