The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-27
in SAVINGS BANKS.
RoMANcES WHERE ONE WOULD
HARDLY EXPECT THEM.

Was Robbed by an UnprincipIed Lawyer
II one has the good luck 10 get severa
presidents OF savings banks together anC
when they arc through with talking bust
ness hear them exchange interesting ex
periences, he will have an enjoyable hour
Here are some Of the things which he will
be likely 20 hear or might have heard any
time within the last few years. Imagine a
group Of presidents seated around a glow
ing sea coal fire i'm the luxurious office OF
one Of them. After the conversation has
become general, as some OF the novel
writers say, Mr. A. discourses 10 this effect
81 don't know whether any of the rest
Of you have ever had anything like this in
your experience or not IL is against the
rules, Of course for our bank TO take
charge Of the books Of any Of the deposit
Ors, but l must plead guilty to violating
the rule 20 "a certain extent myself. In
one of the drawers in my desk for the last
six or seven years / have kept the book OF
woman who opened an account that long
ago. As soon as she had done so she came
10 me and told me a moving tale Of the
cruelty of her husband, saying that he
would give her no peace day or night If he
knew she had put money in bank. She
was afraid To take the book home with her,
as she had no place TO conceal it where he
could not find it, and Sine didn't want TO
tell any friend about what she was doing
'unbeknownst, as she might have said
So she begged me, with tears in her eyes,
10 allow her TO leave it with me, and as a
personal favor / consented TO take charge
of 10. Every now and then she comes in
here, asks for the book, takes il out TO
make her deposit and then returns it to
me. Her account now amounts to about
$500. And l think can say that have
never suffered from pricking of con-
science because of having winked at a vio-
lation of rule Of the bank"
Mr.. A. having been acquitted by the
unanimous silence of his confreres, Presi-
dent Is. began TO speak. II don't want to
bore any Of you who may have heard this
before" he remarked, "but 10 certainly
was "a singular experience. Some years ago
hardworking mechanic opened an ac-
count in our bank, to which he added reg
ularly for some time. After that for "a long
period the account lay dormant, growing
by the addition of the interest until it
amounted 10 about %, 500. In some way
an INSCRIPTIONS lawyer heard of it and
after the manner of his kind went TO the
bicClohiC Win pisiuSlDit Jllc W ndb VIII
you give me, he asked, if will prove 10
you that there is sum of several thou
sand dollars due you and put you in the
way of getting the money! The mechanic
was naturally astonished and was easily
prevailed on by the smooth tongued law
yer to sign contract that If the lawyer
could make out such case as he said be
could the money would be divided between
hnrn fIE.raffrsr, l.. 4.
secret. The money is due you, he said,
from such and such a savings bank oh,
j know all about that, replied the me
chanic Il have known all along that had
the money there. But the lawyer Haunted
the contract IN the man face, and, though
IL was a plain case of fraud, the man be-
lievod il was "a valid contract and actually
gave The scJuudryl lawyer half the amount
in the bank.
After o suitable interval President G.
took mp the tale. u don't know that ! can
do letl.r. De began, ethan 90 tell a little |
story which / heard % few years ago from
the pre- idantOf oueof the Brooklyn banks, /
and 1 shall try to tell 30 as nearly as pos.
sibic 30 DIS own words as ! recall them. /
As wa- sitting in my Office ono day one I,
Of the Young mon iu Che bank came % mo I
iud showed JIG book which bore date /.
)i m9uy years before He said &c. bad been
BROUGHT ia by an old woman told him
10 send her 10 uc On inquiry learned Z
hat Size could neither read nor write. but 4
shc said the book belonged 90 her, and she .
had rlt thc money iu the bank long \
time h-i1rc. As nearly us she could mcm- /
Dor, the amouut was about $3.50, and sew /
raj Times pointing 20 The book, She asked /
in1iou-ly iI it was not all There. ] assured 4
Der that ~ was and proceeded TO question /
lcr a. 10 why she had left the account 50 /
On2 uudisturbed. She said that many |
years before she had been employed as a /
crvant In Brooklyn and had taken all She /
'Ould spare from her wages and put the |
money in bank. After "a time she went /
away from the city and had never set foot |
n IL until that day. She was getting old |
MD thought II would be good thing To |
90 and get her money. Again she asked If |
Q was ell there, indicating the book and |
# course ! told her IL was all right, ex- |
,cpt the interest, "A word that seemed TO |
convey no idea to her mind. / became con- |
7inced that she was entitled TO the money |
md told one Of the clerks TO write up the |
Jook just as though IL had been an active |
recount all the time. When his work was |
lone, found that the amount due the old |
woman was about S., goo. She was simply
lazed and asked how IL could be. ex- |
claimed as well as / could about the inter
80, but she was unable to understand it, |
overcome by her feelings, she burst into
ears when the money was brought TO her.
Oh, sir, " she said, you don { know what
TOu have done for me. i can't understand
It all how MI that money belongs 90 me;
Jut, do you know, / shun't have TO do
mother days work as long as i live" /
Ton think, said my Brooklyn friend in
cling the story, that / ever had "a kecner
OF the benefits OF savings
mnks than at that mOmCnt, and / fancy
III Of us would have said Ito same thing
we bad been in his place. New York
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