Show DECEIVED BY HIS CAUTION A counterfeit package mistaken by its ita ow owner for 0 one e that contained money I 1 arrived here just before the first bank ban k suspension bays ys a denver correspondent of the st louis globe dem and one of the first calls I 1 made was on a merchant whose nervousness made it painful to do business with him no matter how large a bill could be sold to him on this particular occasion lie he seemed afflicted with an excessively ces severe attack of his chronic complaint and he told me he was too much worried about finance to talk ab giving orders after awhile he became communicative and told me he had succeeded in withdrawing from the bank that day rather over four thousand dollars w which b ich he had put away in a strong box in in an a actually burglarproof burglar proof f vault into which thieves could not possibly break through and steal lie he proceeded to tell me in addition that he had made up a dummy package representing and indeed counterfeiting the package of currency which he had carefully labeled with the actual contents of the valuable roll the dummy package he explained was in the back of his ordinary cash drawer which he showed me uis his explanation of this s peculiar precaution was that as he had been seen by several people who had helped start the run on the bank he was afraid his place might be burglarized and that if it was the dummy package would undoubtedly be taken without vit hout being opened and examined and the thief would hurry away without searching for further booty I 1 smoked a good cigar with the merchant er and tried to convince him that his bank was all right and that he had taken a great deal of unnecessary trouble late in the same day however the bank had to suspend and when I 1 saw my customer the ne next x t day he chuckled over the success of his precautionary measures when I 1 got him down to talking business he suddenly remembered he owed our house a few hundred dollars and said if I 1 would wait he would go to the va vault alt and get the money he came back in about ten minutes lookin looking as though lightning had struck him he carried in his hand what I 1 presumed was his roll of bills and when he threw it on the counter and rushed headlong to his cash drawer I 1 began to doubt his aa sanity U but in a minute his peace of mind was restored and the explanation was obvious lie ile had made up the real and dummy packages so much alike that he had deceived himself and had placed a roll of brown paper in the vault while the package containing over four thousand dollars had been lying loose in his cash drawer without any protection against fire or th thieves leves his remarks on 0 u his own blunder were abusive in the extreme |