New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
MESSENGER BLOCKS FoRGER's GAME
Refuses TO Deliver Envelope Containing
S40O Supposedly for Dr. Morgan.

The obedience 20 instructions Of a siXteen-y ear
old messenger boy. Charles Schatz, saved ths
Fifth-ave National Bank 500 Monday after
noon A few minutes after ! o'clock on that day
the boy entered the bank and gave the teller an
envelope The envelope contained tYpe"rltten
note on the rectory paper Of the FeF- Dt- y
Parker Morgan rector Of the Church Of the HeaV-
enlv Rest and check made PAYABLE to bearer
osrensibIy signed by the clergy man The note
asked that the amount of the check. 500, be given
20 the boy in envelope addressed to baV1d =.
Decker. No. Front-st.. the treasurer Of the
parish The signatures on the note and the check
were unusually good representations Of the sigma
;,,rA of Tlr Morgan. The teller did moi hesitate
10 GO as the note directed, Dr. Morgan was =
we'll known d41)ositor and he handed the boy the
envelope containing the money. i'm four crisp notes
The boy departed with it, and bearded IN elevated
train for the South Ferry station.
Tho note asking for the money mad been given to
the boy by young man standing on the steps OF
Or NIorcan's house No. ; East Forty -fifth-st. 4
minute OF two before telephone call had been re-
ceived at tht district messenger office. around the
corner al No. So Fifth ave directing that a boy
be sent to DR.. Morgan's house Immediately When
the hoy reached the house ne found the man
awaiting him
You are the boy sent 10 Or Morgan's house, are
YOU net7" he asked the boy The hoy replied that
he was and then the stranger said: ''Wel, here IS
your errand, Take what you receive at the bank to
/ Inc address which they viii give you. Pc quick
now
reached the South Ferry station before the
stranger He found the man there awaiting nm
You were quick, my boy, but You see have
got here ahead YOU I will says you the bother
of delivering the note. Give it TO me and 60 back
this train
The boy was on the point of handing 1t over
| when he recalled. when he became messenger 2
few before, that he had been instructed not
give things 10 people IN the street. tie szld ne
could do il and started from the station The
man offered him % cents and then 81, but the boy
would not give Up the envelope In the mean time
the pair were approa hing No : Front-st. A they
reached the steps the holted. and the hoy.
convinced that there something wrong, started
pack 10 Or Norgsn'S house When he arrived
there he was sent 10 the bank. where he returned
the envelope few minutes before o'clock The
teller took from the envelope the four crisp bills.
Dr Morgan said last night that he was out ot
town At the time He could ror account for the
strangers possession Of his private paper Inc
SIGNATURES the the note especially. he said
were very good They were not traclngS because
they lacked one characteristic Of his signature
The man ne said must have been well acquainted
with The details OF his relations w'fh 'he church ana
hank From the description. however he s4id ne
cases being investigated with his. hut would not
discuss them. Dr. Morgan has beer a deposItor IN
the Fifth-ave bank for twenty years Both
ness and obedience instructions. II was said
yesterday that the bank would oner the hoy
place. Scha1z ives at No. 1855 Fark-aFe.