Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-04-09 | Page 8 | Tried to Outwit His Wife

TRIED TO OUTWIT HIS WIFE Husbands Scheme to Draw Funds From Savings Bank IPails There was a little scene at one of the savings banks yesterday There Is a deposit there In the Joint name of husband hus-band and wife The husband desired lo withdraw the cash and the wife said him nay but the lord of the family concluded to get It anyway Sq to the bank ho went The urbane cashier with his most winning smile told him that he could not get the morjey unless un-less his wife acquiesced In the deal So heartsick and sore away he went only to return however a few moments mo-ments later with a woman who said she was his wife and suggested that she was anxiqus and willing to sign for the amount The cashier knowing that the woman brought by the man was not the one who bad an interest in the deposit refused to pay the amount and the couple left the bank Twenty minutes later the woman who did have an interest came In and was told what had happened With an expression of vengeance on her face she demanded lo know which way the couple had gone She was told southward Grasping her skirts In one hand and gelling a tighter hold on the heavy umbrella she carried with the other the woman made a rush for the door and was soon at the street corner a block away At last accounts there had not been a reckoning