Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-06-29

Paying TeiIer's
Vindicdfion.

Ienly found the burden of car
his mother and two sisters
bpon his young shoulders An
d of the family took him TO /
5d{nt of the Twelfth National
lie stock of which he was the
bwner, and said:
is Ned Barnicoat. l would
to make position for him at
BIN round of the ladder and adj
i'm as rapidly as he shows fit
advancement"
&howed such carefulness, integ-
a. "a other faculties required by
| ldling great deal of money
f<f1 a short time he was advanced
Ia III position of receiving teller with
Ia saiary that enabled him to take fair
/ " good care Of his mother and sisters
Then something happened that for a
time made It questionable whether he
would go up higher in the scale or be
turned out Of his position altogether.
One day an Office boy from the firm
o. Peter Bushnell & Co. came to Ned's
window with deposit Peter Bush
nell was a director of the bank and
one of Its largest depositors. At least
be had held large account there, but
after q heavy slump in stocks it had
been overdrawn. There were eighteen
checks for deposit, one for $4,000. 1t
was drawn by William Copeland to Pc
ter Bushnell's order and had, of course,
been indorsed by Bushnell. There was
q slight roughness apparent to Ned's
| eye, practiced on such matters, on the
paper where the figures denoting the
amount to be paid were written. Ned
'rpassed his thumb over the place and
Thought he felt the roughness. He
| turned from his cage and asked two OF
his fellow clerks IL they noticed what
he thought he noticed Neither of them
could see osfeel anything unusual.
Ned felt in his innermost conscious
ness that the check had been raised.
IL 1t had blSen originally drawn for
k}2,O00, there WAS room In the written
amount betvteen ''two" and thou
iandn to make the an and fill in
u inc letters nifty" There seemed to
| Ned to be the Same roughness on the
written as on the figure portion--that
s. Ned thought there was roughness
| On both, though the clerks not detect
ing 1t made him doubt his discovery.
/ 70 charge Peter Bushnell with rails
ing a check would be to create an en-
Il envy who had the power to end the
$3.50 "a a,s,,,oroa ouai,t,as
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go Mi, tbe snsnactad ono with N,
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L5~,,,ht1y x,,yittan
9 r. ror,u ,ros ratrrned bpt a fev
d naa1,s altar rho occ,,rrance Ned wa
k d,schorcod at Tho request of pete
d ll pushna,, ostansiblv ~ mako. wav fo
n n prshnaIps nanbaw Nod knew IN
\ batt,a xyas IN He won't 10 the nres
> dan+ and to,d bis story
Tha nrosidan+ had no cboica Int I
,,,uast,rata ond thara ,vas tba av
l. aaroa - tha having tal,ar and tw
ri cIerLs that . check FOR 100000 i,
dl dorsad IN p,,sbnal, had haan nresen
a ~ ras,,sea ana notbing sinca baard
IN a Nad s.ydro that Il had haen misc,
"a IA p,,shnaIi wos charcoal with bavin
i rs,sa,, Il prsbpa,I stormad ana sxyo,
81 that ha Yo,,,d M rast hi he had n,
n Ma ha,,,nd hars for n ual;cious an