Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — BOODLE IN THE STREET. [ARTICLE]

BOODLE IN THE STREET.

A Chicago Bank Meuangtru Baltovad *4 % Large Sam Myitcrloaslyi A* Messenger Austin, of the PnlpU State Natonal Bank, of Chicago, was returning from the postoffice, on the 15th, he discovered that a satchel containing sev oral thousand dollars in currency sad clearing house checks for $87,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the buggy. The sachet was lost between the postoflee and the bank. Messenger Austin became frantic, and rushing into the hank told the officials of his loss. The officials were im mediately notified, and soon a dozen officers were out searching ! for the missing sachel. The messenger and an official of the bank jumped into the buggy and traversed the route that bad been taken from the postoffice, but without finding the missing sachel. A little boy who runs errands for a tailor found the satchel two minutes after it had fallen out of the' bag , gy. He shouted to the driver to stop, but his cries were not heard.' The boy oarried the satchel to his employer’s shop where it was opened. When the tailor saw the rolls of greenbacks he nearly fainted. From' the papers in the valise the tailor discovered its owner’s name. He put on his. coat and hat and hastened to the bank. When he walked into the bank with the satchel in hand the clerks rushed at him: as though he were a long-lost brother.’ There was rejoicing all around and the tiilor was awarded handsomely for his honesty. The lad who found the satchel was not forgotten by the bank people ’ The above is the story as told by George Van Zandt,vice president of th*- bank. At other sources it was said that instead of the money being lost from the buggy it was stolen. The vice president stated em« phatically that it was not a theft. His rc fusal to give the name of the boy who found the sachel and his employers lends credence to the report that it was a robbery.