The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-08-01
KERR GETS MONEY, BUT
HE LOSES 1T AGAIN
Bank Makes Mistake in Cashing Ma.
son Check and Refund is
Demanded.

LdSL w euueSuay VIC udo SoHieIiiiii6
to say of the "pernuters" of one
Frank w. Mason, especially of one of
his aforesaid acts relating to the pur-
chase of refrigerator from Corp.
Kerr, Emporium Prop, of North
Main, also Corp. If the Dutch Kolone
who promises US that he will sell fur
niture even cheaper than last week
| when you could get it at fifty on the
dollar, the new reduction carrying
ne price down to cost, or in that
neighborhood.
Well, the Corp. has not yet deliv-
cred the refrigerator, nor has the
wire merchant delivered the wire, nor
the grocery merchant his groceries,
but all of the merchants are still
holding Franks checks. The fact is
that Frank lied at so many places on
Ferry Street that he has about dis
proved the theory that one bo3y can
be in one place only at one and the
same time. However, Frank is not
no won Ferry Street a. any Of the
addresses.
But we started to tell about the
troubles in which the Corp. now finds
himself. 1t happened this way: All
tile other check holders sent their
checks in for collection, but the Corp.
being the first sucker to bite, sent
his in first. By some mistake the
bank cashed the Corps check which
Frank had given him, and Thursday
the Corps overdraft stand notified
him to come down and pay ten cents
collection charges and get his money.
This the Corp. Immediately borrowed
from his grocery merchant, Col. Dale
Barksdale, the latter letting him
have the dime on the promise that the
proceeds of the check would be put
on the overdue grocery account al
Col. Barksdale's store. Well, the
Corp. got his money, he thought, and
while he was standing around on the
street Dragging about it, and about
being fifteen dollars ahead, the wire
merchant applied to Chief Justice
Bob McComb, and through his at
torney, Judge M. E. Hollingsworth,.
secured an attachment on the fifteen,
with an order forbidding the Corp.
to pay it out. When Col. Barksdale
in few minutes applied to the Corp.
for TIE proceeds of the check to put
on the grocery account, according
to promise, the Corp. showed him the
order of Judge McComb forbidding
him to pay the money out. This COM
pletely flabbergastered Col. Barks-
dale who saw Immediately where his
dime had gone, so he went back to
his store and raised the price of wat
ermelons half cent per pound to
make the dime back. At the same
time he applied to Judge McComb
and secured a warrant against the
Corp. for getting the dime under
false pretenses. This went on Friday,
but Saturday morning the Corp. did
not feel so well, because in his morn
ing mail, the said overdraft estab-
lishment dropped him a note saying
that he had gotten money out of it
by passing "bum" check, and that
the money must be paid before $50
or the matter would be reported to
the Amalgamated Cooperative Ex-
elusive Collection and Adjustment
Agency, and heroic action taken co
Instant. The agency and collection
part of the letter did not disturb the
Corp. but the co instanti did, so he
took the money he had gotten on the
check to the bank and returned it
and begged it's pardon for any SEEM
ing slack-twistedness in his way of
doing a banking business. This soon
got out and the wire merchant seeing
that he was about to be left out in
the cold, once more applied to Judge
McComb who had made the order
the money must be held until "furth-
er notice." whereupon Judge Nc
Comb issued his order to the Corp.
as follows: