Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
SHE WAS NO THIEF
YET THE BANK REFUSED TO
CASH HER CHECK.
She Had q Lot of Excellent Identified
tons to Offer, but They Did Not
Satisfy the Hard-Hearte
Paying Teller.

you will have to be identified be-
fore 1 can cash this check for you.
madam"
You mean that have to prove that
1 am the lady whose name is written
on the check?"
Yes. ma am. You are a stranger
to me, you know. Do you know any,
one in the bank?"
mo, I don't, but l know lad!
whose husband is president of bank
in Detroit, and one of my cousins is
cashier of a bank in Louisville.
have some of my visiting cards in my
purse, and-O, here is little news
paper clipping about the death Of an
uncle of mine whose name is the same
that mine was before I was married.
He was my fathers brother, and
THAT would hardly serve as an
Identification. You would have to
bring someone here who knows you.
81 hope you don't think that l am
trying to get something that doesn t
belong to me. Do / look like person
who would come in here and try to
get money on a check that WASH
mine? I can tell you just exactly how
and where I got that check. 1t was
sent to me as a birthday present by
an uncle of mine who always SENDS
me something on my birthday because
his birthday and mine comes on the
very same day. This year he wrote
that he would send me the money
and let me get something for myself,
and have his letter right here in
my shopping bag. Won't that ident1'
fly me?"
81 am afraid not"
why not?" AS I say, do look like
a thief? You'd better be little care
full in regard to your insinuations, sir.
I have lived in this city rs years,
and"
Then you ought to know someone
who could identify you in this bank.
Don't you know someone in this part
of the city who could identify your
ST can't think of anyone. l used to
know a Mr.. Saul Smith who repaired
watches in the next block, but he died
a year or two ago and-Oh, l think
that a friend of mine named Jones,
Mrs. W. B. Jones, has an account
here"
Eyes, she has. You bring her here
with you and 1t will be all right"
"You don't mean to say that | have
to go and get her and drag her IN
with me to say that she knows me be-
fore you pay me that money? OF all
things I can't do that, for she has
gone to Bermuda for a month. Isn't
1t enough that I know her and that l
know she has an account here? Do
YOU think that l am liar? II my
husband or my brother o, here
is little tintype picture Of myself,
taken on the beach one day last sum-
mer. Won't that do as an identlflca-
ton? You see that / have on the
same chain and locket that I have on
in the picture and the same dress
skirt"
"This is no Identification, madam,
for
I'D like to know why it isn't.
There's the picture and here am L.
What more do you want9 And here
is a letter in my bag that l am just
going to mail to sister OF mine Nv
ing out west You can see that the
handwriting on the envelope is the
same as that on the back of the check
where have written my name"
"I am afraid you do not under
stand just what it means to be ident1-
fed, for"
81 understand it means lot of
bother and red tape, and 1t implies
that a lady is a thief if she cannot
drag in three or four people to take
oath that she isn't. I'll have you to
know that I stand as well in the COM
munity in which l live as any lady in
# and my family connections are
good enough for me to be member
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution. for both of my parents had
ancestors at the battle Of Bunker Hill
and mother was a direct descendant
of one of the first governors of Vir-
ginia, and yet l can't get a check for
$40 cashed here without trailing in
lot of people to swear that l am who
am. and Why, Mr.. Grigsby, Is
this you? I didn't expect to meet youi
never was here until this morning,
when I came in with small check
To he cashed. Identify me? o, thank
you. Mr.. Grigsby-"-Puck.