Year: 1873

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Burglariously and Feloniously.
We had just locked up the safe, and
l had had put the key in my pocket
am the accountant of the North and
South of England Bank at it's Padscy
Branch, W. r. Yorks. I had got my
hat on, and had taken up my umbrella
when man came running into the
bank with Il bag of money in his hand


Am in time ?" he cried.


I shook my head.


deuce take it!' he said: "and Tn
off to Liverpool by the next train, and
then to America


" Sorry for it" but we can't take the
money"


Well, then, what is to be done
Here's twenty-five thousand pounds in
this bag, and these drafts of mine come
due in couple Of days. Well, you'll
have to take them up" he said; "
can't unless you take the money in to.
night"


knew that those drafts were coming
due, and that our manager was q little
anxious about them, for they were rather
heavy, and the other names on them
were not very good. Black, too--that
was the man with the money-bag- Black
was capital customer, and not only a
good customer himself, but he brought
good accounts with him, and we were q
young branch and on our mettlc.


Well, here was the money to NEE! the
drafts, anyhow, and should have been
a great fool to send it away just because
it was after hours. SO 1 counted it all
over; there was about nineteen thous-
and in checks and notes, and three
thousand in gold.


"Come and have glass of beer with
me" said Black, on the way to the sta
ton.


Iput the bag of money in my desk,
and locked it up. would come back
presently, and have it placed in the safe.
l walked to the station with Black; we
had some beer together, and then he
went off Amcrica-warls, and on the
way to the Nemophillar Villa. You
see, was rather in the habit of calling
for glass of beer as I went home, and
then going on; and, consequently, from
the force of habit, I'd almost got home
before remembered the bag of money.
1t was vexing, too, because We had q
tea-party that night, the first since oul
marriage, and it began at six O'Clock
and I'd promised to be at home an hou,
earlier, to draw tho corks and help to
get things ready. And here it was six
o'clock, and I had to go all the way
back to the bank.


All the way back I went as hard as
could pelt. However, the money was
all right in my desk, and now I'd put
it in the safe. "Tell Mr.. Cousins
our manager, you know-I said to the
servant who'd let me in, =" that I want
the key of the safe." But you had il
in your pocket, say you; which shows
that you are not acquainted with the
rules and regulations of the North and
South of England Bank, which say that
the accountant or chief-cashier shall be
responsible for the due custody of the
cash whilst it is in his possession in the
daytime, and that at night all moneys
and securities shall be carefully secured
within the Office safe, which shall be
secured by two keys, one of which
shall be in the custody of the manager
and the second in that of the account.
ant or cashier. But you say again, as
long as you had one key what did you
want with two? There, I own, the
regulations are obscure. They were
drawn up by somebody without any
literary skill; if they'd consulted me
about 'em, I could have suggested Q
good many improvements. What they
! meant to say was that the safe was te