Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1891-09-01 | Page 1 | Story of a Bank of England Note

Story of 1 flank of England Note Special to THE HERALD Examiner Cable LONDON Aug 31A aispatch from Genoa which arrived lastnight is creating 1 sensation in newspaper offices and elsewhere else-where It states that an Englishman name unknown called at the caled office of a money changer Signor Chisoli and asked him to change a 1000 Bank of England note Signor Chisoli fearing tho + > j note might form part of the recent Bank of V England robbery to tho extent of 250000 I took down a list of numbers of the stolen notes in order to compare with that of the note offered When hedid this the Englishman English-man walked out leaving the Ail000 note be hind him The Genoese police are looking for him and have already notified tho po lice authorities in London This is the first public information here that such a robbery had occurred and the Scotland Yard officials so far as can bo discovered dis-covered tonight cither profess ignorance i of such robbery or decline to commit themselves them-selves Newspaper editors are much concerned con-cerned at the possibility that a great sensation sen-sation has been kept secret hitherto by the bank officials and the detective police as nothing whatovdr is publicly known hereof here-of such a robbery I is however considered con-sidered possible the dispatch from Genoa may refer to the theft of a satchel from the Bank of Scotland containing 00000 Yet this took place six months ago while the telegraph describes tho Bank of England robbery as of recent occurrence and sets the figure at 230000