New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
LOST $4,000 BILL
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eeipts had been already sent 20 the nahh
and the $4,000 bill was placed between
the leaves of q handbook.
Young Lang had been in Wall Street
few months only, and was unable TO
treat a $4,000 piece of yellow paper
with the Indifference that experience
would inculcate. He could not fcreeear
to take it out, on the way downstairs III
the elevator and stroke 1t. Another boy
employed by the same firm being in the
elevator at the time, Long let him qeei
it. toe, and it felt coed TO feel that way
apparently. The other boys name is
Ashland, Lang afterward told Detective
David Wiiber, of the Central ofiice.
Then Lang permitted the elevator oper-
ator to see the curiosity.
The bleating OF the lambs when the
street was reached, and the accustomed
sounds emanating from the bulls ana
bears, did not inspire in Lang any sense
of danger, and he next showed the vel
leuback TO P. Moseheyites, Greek
beotIuack, with d stand in front OF the
building. The Greek Was interested IN
the novelty CT the sight, but did net pc
lieye that the figures or the paper meant
what they indicated II vas pretty
however. and Moschevites held the bill
LID TO the sunlight, which brought out
some hidden beauties, and after another
close inspection he handed 1t back to
Lang Ashland, young Lang said, Went
a-ith him as far as Nah ana New
streets. and there they separated Lang
insists that the bill was then IN tRe
passbeok which he placed in the OUTSIDE
pocket Of his overceat-
In the bank Lang took out the pass
book. and found that. while it vas safe
the $1,000 bill had disappeared
Lang was prisoner at Police Heaa-
quarters last night, charged with nelhs
a suspicious person.
Jciln "a. Prentiss, g member OF me
firm, after auestiening the hey at length
said that ne believed his story.
"'Ne think he is good boy he said
"and that he really lost the eeFuheaes
as he says he did"
In the hurry to get the certificate te
the bank before the closing hour ffle
firm neglected TO record it's numher,
precaution that is generally taken but
Mr PFentiss said yesterday that even
Though the number of the pill Was not
known there vas little doubt that the
certificate would be recovered. AS soon
as he heard of the loss he at once in
formed the banks, the Sub-Treasury and
the New York Clearing House Even
when the loss of such d certificate mas
not been reported, no bank, it Vas said
yesterday, would change II unless the
person who presented 1t VAS known te
the officers OF the institution.
Hundreds ef men and boys in tha
financial district failed to find the bill,
although they diligently searched for It.
BOY HAD AN AF1LICTIGN.
Lang. who. it was learned, had been
an outdoor patient at the psycliepathic
ward Of Bellevue Hospital, became dizzy
when he discovered the loss. His mother
says that he was subject to such spells
when excited, and there is no reason to
doubt this part of his story.
He told the detective he left the bank
In a daze without making his loss known
going on a long walk, his brain 'Nhiri-
ing" He reached Columbus Circle, or
q
Gle. and II ent into the park and sat on J
bench.
The boys mother, Mrs. David Lang,
Yesterday morning took him TO the firms
office The firm had called in the Pink
erton Detective Agency just previously.
Mrs. Lang told the police, after the boy
had been turned over to them, that the
lad was subject to fits of nervousness,
VAS often dizzy when excited, and for
several months, while not working in
the late fall, never left the house, but
sat near the radiator at home. In Langs
rockets were found two hospital cards,
one from the psychopathic ward at Belle
vue. where he was treated for nervous
ness. and one from the medical depart
ment of st. Luke's Hospital.
When asked why he did not go to the
office after discovering his loss, he sim
Div stuck TO his story that it had made
him dizzy and he did not know just what
Re was doing.