Show an ingenious swindle tax collector andrew bauchou Bon Bou chou of hancock turned over as a part of hs his funds to supervisor wheeler jan 12 a queer bank note it passed for a twenty dollar bill aud and but for the watchfulness of the cashier in nichols banking house in this village it might have gone unchallenged the cashier at once discovered that the front of the bill was a twenty but the back was a five they were the split halves of two genuine gentline bank notes pasted tog together gether the schemers profit will depend on whether ho he passes the mate to it for twenty dollars by proffering back up by doing so he will have made fifteen dollars clear on the transaction the collector had taken it in for taxes hancock N Y |