Evening star., 1935-01-28

was found to have been the depositor
He said he had the bill from a cigar
manufacturer in Newark, then out of
business, who had paid for cigar wrap
pings with it. Once found, the cigar
manufacturer said that he. in turn
had got it from a relative in the tire
business, and here the chain ended.
The Asian bills mentioned by Ed
ward J. Reilly at the trial caused
more trouble than any. The first to
be found was a $40 gold certificate
bearing on its back, where it was not
noticed when the bills were listed,
the stamp Of 8. K. Nagoor Meera g.
Sons, 43 Braille street, Colombia,
Ceylon. Inquiries made through the
Chartered Bank of China, India and
Australia, Ltd, revealed that S. X.
Nagoor Meera & Sons had moved
from the Braille street address In
1877 and had not used the stamp
thereafter, SO that it was concluded
that the bill must have had the stamp
on it when the Morgan list was COM
piled.
Two other bills, one from Kobe,
Japan, and one from Hongkong,
China, came In shipments to the
Chase National and the National City
Banks. They were traced to their
sources in the East and it was found
that they had been spent there long
enough after the ransom payment to
make 1t quite reasonable to assume
that they had first changed hands in
this country. Nevertheless, all the
sailor and passenger lists Of ships en-
tering the ports In question from this
country were checked over as care
fully as possible, without result. ..
Utilities Asked to Aid.
The search continued unabated. al
though time passed. New methods
were invented, such as persuading all
the utility companies in the city to
order their collectors to note the ac-
count number on the back of each
gold note or red seal SIS received. On
January l, 1884, the steady flow of
bills suddenly stopped, but in August
it resumed once more, when nine $40
gold notes, all in the series that they
were packed in at the Morgan bank,
were passed In rapid succession on the
East Side.
On September 9, a gold certificate
came in from the upper East Side,
which was traced to the Boccanfuso
Store. There Salvatore Levatino,
clerk, recalled having received the bill
from o man who came in to buy six
cents worth Of vegetables. Levatino
had been unwilling to take the bill,
because Of the anti-hoarding law, but
had accepted 1t after an argument.
Thus he recalled the man in detail,
but at first he would not describe him,
from ingrained dislike Of the police.
At last he was persuaded to choose
one passer by In the street as the
general build Of the bill-passer, an
other as having the same sort Of eyes.
and third as having the same face.
He also described the mans clothes.
Encouraged at last, Lieut.. Finn
asked for and got IS men from the
Police Department, to stand all down
Third avenue from 104th street, for
two score blocks, Just to watch for a
man corresponding to Levatino's and
the other description. They had been
watching only q few days, however,
when the last bill came In from the
Warner Quinlan gas station on Lex
ington avenue at, 127th street Lieut..
Finn called the Bureau Of Motor We
hicle Licenses. In four minutes the
description Of Hauptmanns license
application was read to him and he
decided he had his man.