The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-24

ment the capitalist seemed content. A few
months later this capitalist was in a great
state of mind. He could not find anywhere
among his possessions a block of 2,OOe
shares of Northwestern stock. He could
not say whether II had been lost or stolen.
At last he gave bond to the railway com
pany and received for IL new stock, and
the old issue was cancelled. At the begin
ming Of the following year the deposit COM
pany's employee asked that he might be
relieved of the responsibility of caring for
that capitalists envelope, although he did
not know what II contained. The capt.
talist was sent for and the envelope given
to him He received II in apparent igno-
rance of its contents until he opened II and
found within the missing 1900 shares OF
the par value of 5000 The whole trans
action was en- utter blank TO him. II ne
had been a man OF Incorporate habits II
might have been explained. but he is prac-
tically a total abstainer.
Another capitalist had in his employ a
coachman who was a very faithful man.
The cOachman had saved some $500 and,
asking his employer what he had better
do with Il. was told to put II IN good
bond and the coachman commissioned his
employer to do that for him. The bond
was bought and at the coachman's re-
quest the employer put It, as he supposed,
in his own vault. but in NJ of absent
mindedness, he put that and other bonds
in an unrented vault adjoining his own,
and then, after little, complained OF the
loss OF these securities. They We're SUISSE
quently found by an emplcye in this UNI
rented vault.
A very remarkable experience was that
which was the lot of physician of
high local repute, who is also q million
aire His box was one OF the latest. in
all those great vaults II was pressed full
and running over with the choicest OF Sc
curities. In fact. so much larger were
his securities in actual measurement than
the interior measurements OF his box,
that on one occasion when he had been
looking at his wealth four N,OO-bondS
slipped from the pile to the floor he not
noticinR IT, and he returned his box to the
vault not being aware that II contained
"a 900 less than il did when he examined
him I'm a day or two. A few months later
this physician reported that sixteen $1,000
bonds. which he had placed In his box
few weeks before, he found TO be missing
He was able to speak in great detail Of
the manner in which he had returned these
bonds TO the box. He described the way
in which they were folded, and even the
corner of the box In which they were
placed He said that no one, so far as
he knew, had been able to get his key
and no one but his daughter knew the
password The daughter confirmed her
fathers statement except that she could
not say that she saw him put these bonds
back in the box. The case was a mystic
rious one, and IL seemd impossible that
bonds upon the floor, as he did at an
other time, since his daughter was with
him; and, moreover, an employe examin-
ed the coupon room Immediately after the
physician departed from IL. Investtga-
ton was made in every direction. The
financial agents OF the company which is
sued the bonds were communicated with
but reported that no attempt had been
made, so far as they knew to place the
bonds anywhere. Several weeks after the
loss was reported the physician went into
the office of the safe deposit company
with an expression upon his face half
humorous and half shameful, and he said
he had that morning discovered by acci-
dent in an old wooden desk in his house,
those sixteen bonds. He had no recollec-
ton of having taken them from his vault
or having put them in his desk, but there
they were, and he knew that no one but
he could have done that thing.
very rich man made complaint that
he had lost several per cent. bonds of
81, 900 each, which he was sure he had put
into his box in the vault upon his last
previous visit and had locked the vault
door. He persisted in his declaration that
these bonds had been lost somewhere,
and in some mysterious way in the safe
deposit vaults, until letter was received
from the west, in which II was stated
this man had actually sent the bonds to
the office of the Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad Company to have them trans
ferred into stock He professed TO have
no recollection of that transaction. A
wealthy widow complained that several
thousand bonds of a western railroad
company, which she had placed in her
box in the vaults, were not there when
she next went to examine her SECURITIES.
She, too, was known to be very careful
woman. and unusually skillful in the
management of her investments, having
most women possess. The mystery was