Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-06 | Page 26 | $10,000 Bill Lost by Careless Messenger

1 0,111 BILL LOST BY CABELESS MESSENGER Youths Head Turned by Importance Im-portance xOf Errand, He Exhibits Money. - By Associated Press. t NICW YORK. Fob. 5. A simple ten-word ten-word piece of intelligence came tapping tap-ping out over the ticker tape between quotations today which set hundreds of messenger and office boys in the financial district searching through Wall street. The tape read: "Lost, a ten thousand-dollar bill; notily llornblower & Weeks." This piece of "loose change" had been sent by llornblower & Weeks bankers and brokers, (o a member of the exchange and was lost by the 18-year-okl messenger on his way to Wall street . The messenger, whose name is withheld, with-held, proud in the possession of tho big bill, had shown it to several admirinc boys and then stuffed it in his pocket. Later he tearfully reported his loss ami was turned over to the police.