Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1875 — Recovery of a Valuable Letter. [ARTICLE]

Recovery of a Valuable Letter.

The First National Bank of this city lias had a curious and somewhat-trouble-some experience with a “ lo*t letter.” On Feb. 6 last a letter containing Cheeks, etc., to the amount of SIO,OOO was mailed from the First National Bank at the Paterson Postofflce to the Importers’ and Traders’ National Bank of New York by the New York agent of the bank here. The New York bank failed to receive the letter, and iof course there was much anxiety about it on the part of the officers of the First National Bank, which would have been the loser if the vouchers were not made good. An exhaustive search was made in the Paterson and New York Postolfices, as well as in both the banks, the search ex-

tending over days, but no trace of the missing package could be found,.. Then strong apprehensions of a mail-robbery were entertained, and the Government officials were impressed with this idea. The First National Bank meanwhile proceeded to make the best arrangements it could for avoiding loss. An extensive correspondence—the package containing thirty accounts of sundry parties—was necessary, and indemnity bonds had to be prepared and given by the bank to all these parties. Finally all was provided for except about S2OO of pension checks of the United States Government, it taking much longer to arrange that matter. Now- comes the curious denouement: On July 6—exactly six months to a day from the time the letter was lost —the clerks in the Postotfice in this city had occasion to poke under their stamping-table for something that had dropped on the floor, and there, snugly lying in a small crack between the bottom of die table and the floor, was the missing letter, with its SIO,OOO intact. It was the only letter ever lost at this office, and it is a little remarkable that.it should have been so valuable a one and should have caused such extraordinai v trouble and anxiety. —Paterson (N. J.) Press.