| Show N at Y et Proof r Against the Forger HB UE r recent c nt exploit of ot I 1 1 Henry Leonard H II messenger twenty y art of ot are age In the em NO employ ploy pIG of or a Ii New York Tork firm of ot maike a decided variation In tn Inthe i the annal II of criminality Without th of ot extraordinary skill j through the customary channels ot 01 M banking life lite young youn man I succeeded in obtaining securities tor tOl which hall had been heen In InI Inthe the City National bank an security for tor torn fora a n loan of ot mad to a Leonard Mil hud been beon with hi employers I tour four year Mr und lod the they hAd luid u a good 1 opinion t ion of him He w wa above average 1 In general attainment and hit reputation had 1 b been excellent lie lier r WM wu regarded by hla hll employer as All A Iol Aj j om and wa WU being I Aid a IlAl salary ry of ot nO 20 a IL week which wu 1 In an Indication that he wae Wal ap appreciated He wae rather reserved In hU 1111 manner but he had been heard to e his opinion that thaL the present em adopted by banking Institution W VM faulty and subject tn 10 numerous I and lintS unnecessary riak rik JIll Ills compan companion ion tn n th thu onice dl dissented Cr from tM 1111 view 1 but Leonard perl ted The Tho time tame came when hn ho hlO wa Wall able to 10 Verify hi hla opinion One day he hI came Bini an old Chick check of ot the firm by Iw which he hf 1 l bearing th Cl ot the tho Hanover National I bank k Hn clipped lIppell oft the bunks nt It t took It to 1 a maker nf ot rubber or and ordered 1 a Ilu duplicate alleg alleging ing that h he hall hail loU lot the would lose lOll his situation If It h he could not nol f v an sn cop copy He lIe wan wall hard to please ant and several stamp were made h he Was Wal When he hud Obtained what he wanted he ordered It II nt to an address In cart care of oC n branch of ot tho Young Men len to 10 claim IndI and Ind I take e way away th canceled check which ho he hoU had U lilt left with the M nt n a ni i triple 11 He hilt the th forethought how ho hot t over r to 10 make that the now J mp wan an In exact reproduction of at the tho old am This V wall H th first In th 1 and he wilted waited for Cor a 11 further t opportunity II n ram came sooner looner even ven than he hall had ex AK All li II ono morning In III Inthe I Ih the CIl City National snit bank awaiting hl hla turn lurn he be chanced to overhear a s which wan going on II between n bunk bank clerk derk and ami a for tor a II 1 brokerage tIn firm H 11 concerned a II l nn nf ot md b by the bank to IhA I IZ r firm 1101 ln nl the was WILI Z that 11 II mistake had been heen f f made In the that It was 4 J iV li lead of ot IVi Hi per pel cont u It I wits WILli marked on lh lb Leonard made a R note noto of lit the correction an and of at the It hall had occurred to him that i ithe the opportunity for tor his hili projected 1 coup i had arrived I Ho proceeded to 10 tho Hanover Ka No j I I 1 bank And rot got a pad al of oC blank checks check which any on ono might do with without without out exciting Thence e h he went tnt directly to an obscure printer and bar bargained gained an II to the price o for printing the name nama of oC i II on the tho ohe k Finally r t t r r IR rl rG oi j 1 71 W I iJ i r I If f I I 1 lt tit k rV l I I r I J t r tT Ii x W r I a J o 1 4 I IJo I I r J L 01 J 1 r J i t 1 hl f Q rrt 1 W t fo M fy e i f 6 I he told the printer h would have havo one for Cor u IL Willi fur tur Immediately I Leonard t tIn In Ing the name of ot firm which th held by hy the bank banle for tor tho lonn Thill wall va H It further the Ihl grand tIn fur It hall had admirably The youthful In th way of ot then boldly fillod In check with and a 1111 the cor correct cornet net Interim forced tho of ot the tho borrowing finn the tho rubber which he hf hall had und nought a II T Leonard to havo lIao no of the UL eEl of or the Iho venture for tor h ht In the tho JUKI tip Ih hank bunk while email boy to 10 whom he had tho went and n It II at III tho proper window Thero was Willi not the tho hitch In the tho matter maller Tho rho tie Ie were delivered without a and a It to fow mo menta ment they handed to Leon Leonard Leonnrd ard who paid 1111 the Ihl boy u quarter put the precious envelope In hili d to Ills work Hu JIo In the until tho Iho clone cloKe oC lupines but bul no onn anything in MX his When aM over ho hI dO closed NI hit hIli desk lel leisurely hi Ills oat cont for tOl Ilio tho one In which the securities were re reo I And went home One thinK thing only 1 ha had been en neglected he had forgotten to confront nt ht Ills fellow tellow hud had j I their faith In Ih the of ot i I modern bank methods with the evidence of ot their On the following I I check which Leonard had forgotten and tile Hie guilty and blundering young Na Napoleon of oC met hi his Waterloo U 11 deems Incredible that In these da days of oC Improved blinking such luch luchIn an In O ft RI b by this omen bo boy could hn have oc oe occurred great 11 york bank at Ipa p t k a moll staff of oC Its cr Hut t min at hand for tor the sole 1010 purpose of ot and preventing fraud traudl l I LEONARD day Leonard tho larger larser purl of ot the securities to 10 cry had made th their lr Im hn Impossible possible Those c retained could have deposited an 1111 collateral for tOI a II loan In almost nn any bink Hut But the rubber tamp man mal forward with lil hI In Incriminating Incriminating criminating evidence and the canceled the Ihl bank bani and anel Its 1111 They ar IIII actually H and arc arl In attempts to I Ith tho Iho bunks property rt both from without and within Tho d de detectives of oC the different banks work In concert and aio ato supposed o to have hae a of ot so 50 arranged that every considerable bank banle In tho town In III Inon on the tho watch for Cor a particular at the tho pome time In the financial Institutions Ir II Irregularities regularities aro 1110 certain to 10 occur und It ItIs IK Is Iho hu of or tho Iho Inspector to swoop down unexpectedly Investigate gate gal Thene inspectors sudden suddenly I ly an 1 Iho most moat mysterious flue and conduct In III 1 a manner which to of ot no ex ox explanation Thc They arc to know all about the hooks and of oC II thu bunk mal ho to them nt III all 1111 time Jut Hut thin corpe nf of acuto detec detectors tors It ID the Iho comparatively bungling knavery Invented by Leonard There In 18 no doubt th that t In the Dingle matter mailer of ot tho detection of ot forced checka tho Iho average pa paying teller toller has lias become expert It 11 Is a II fact however that moat banks of ot noto havo In of ot forged for tor which th they have hao paid liberally How Impossible It IK 18 for tor foru u 11 bani to 10 be br that nil ch checks pro pre presented ut its lis aro oro maybo may bo from tho fact that thai one Now ow York alono Issues checks heck to 10 ilK oel every year an another other und a U third tho operation of ot presenting a forged check It by the 1111 hand ti r i I t f t iW F Ff I 1 t j I f f i tA tAt t I f f r I 11 1 J f J JI I 4 l 4 fJ J JI f I ii AllSTIN eLL that forged tonNI U It has hM grown frown among the thc criminals who make banks bank II their Ire prey It bos hOIl become an on exceed exceedingly i Insl link net act for n a tor forger er to take his spurious handiwork c leer clever though ho hn It to be Into a bank hanle and lay It ItI I before beton tho critical gazo of ot tho man at atthe atthe the window What ho does B sometimes Is to open an on account with the bank by a II genuine check for tor collection lion tion lc leaving fLIrI tho money on deposit This give him a at the bank oyon though the of oC hi hia lt Is After tier II hits known through u IL few legitimate transactions ho hn may venture to I hl evil work Thin Thill ua all tho Iho method adopted by I tho brother In 1873 In th lr raid upon tho thu Il Hank of or England After a career In III t made them thlIn marked In III Ameri America ca clever swindlers transferred activity to Great having convinced n that the they hud hall discovered 1 n way 11 to tho Iho Hank Bonk of ot Their that the nn clont and hitherto Invulnerable Institution sleeping waH nH confirmed when Vh n they sent 1 n bill hili of ot to 10 London and it Il wai U cashed without identification Then ono of ot tho Iho broth Irs era Introduced himself to u II London tailor as ns 1 a rich American so ro sojourning temporarily In III England and was WM In Iu turn Introduced by IW tho trad trades tradesman M Mi i man to tho manager rr of ot a city I of ot tho Bank of ot England In which BUI well a rL few oJ small the forgers III to 10 doal In spurious hills of They forged bill for t hou of ot pound stamped them with b by I and had them cashed with without out qu h by tho bank They rhe pren fori d acceptances f of he the Baring tho thu Anglo Austrian bank Jank tho Ihn Hank ot and othora met with the tho slightest lt In III ob tin and i until a CL neglect In ting In n date dall started nn Investigation which brought to light They n ll with much of Or the lie hut but were captured h by In III Scotland and oud Au Austin lIn In Ha 1111 und nud taken back to for tor trial Thoy Imd lild 10 oral million dollars and aUlI tien to 10 for tor life After many yours at ul oakum picking they thoy sent to America aw nil ticket of ot leavo men man Another und remarkably suc successful ce tul forger Corser of ot the middle nineties was wall William lu n of ot Hamburg Germany II an educated man and tho Iho son of ot ro lu Ho went to Cape apt Town South with letters or Introduction from the tho mo most t Influential of ot tho Iho great t Ormun commercial city Ho by hy bytho tho und l at nt once ollre um 10 I barked barkell In a u career fUter which I j I Beamed to turn 1131 every thinK thing lie he touched Into gold Ho tin Ih leader of or tho Iho social acini world of ot tho South meIrol mo me Irol oll and lived like a prill prince He lie disappeared on one liar day It to light that h hA had cheeky to Ie the amount of or over half a I million on two Iwo of at the largest t banking Institution at the Ille tape was Willi afterward captured In O 0 null and taken back to 10 South Africa EDWIN ImWIN A SPAnKS |
