| Show I i BANK LOSES LETTERS lint In Them Were ere no i The Th Commercial National bank of oC this city lost seven letters a week ago In a Il very ery peculiar p cullar way m probably In III transit to the tho though just how the bank cannot make out olt The rho letters checks stamped to eastern corresponding banks nd therefore nonnegotiable and of or no noI we I e to tol except pt that thai In the hands of an on expert forger torr the name of ot tho payee e might have been erased with end even een then It is IH doubtful If anyone could havo hav made use liSt of them I Tile first Intimation the bank Imd hu of tho thu checks H being lost was Wn a age till tha other othor evening from tho town marshal ot or Horence Colo asking If It was any ani reward offered for tor the return of or UM th checks Mating that they had been he en found on tho person of n a giving the name nam of oC WIlam Comer COiner along with the letters As AH there was no I chance really ot oC J banks losing lo anything no reward wall offered tho th Florence town marshal anti ho he turned tile the fin over to till the United States matthai mOI hal who In turn handed It over to the local Inspector nt Denver Dener Hut an aK the letters were vero not postmarked It Is considered doubtful If Ir the tho government will tale take nn active In Interest terest In till mutter matter Tho prisoner claims to have ha picked the letters up In III dIe street while In thin city Ill and it Il would be pretty to prove that he ho not The Thu hank bank suffers only onh tem temporary Inconvenience by hy be bl being ing forced Corce to duplicate the checks ancI that Is all 1111 The letters were Ie be lIe being ing In tl were all ull In III a anlIn In consequence the bank banle ire to much perplexed an all to 10 how so seven letters were lost |
