| Show HIDDEN TREASURES occasionally old banks discover in their possession money and gems which weicht have been forgotten A london bank of many years stam standing dIng has just found a box containing money and valuables which had not been opened or called for in years and for which there is no claimant there is no other recorded instance of a package held in trust remaining so long unexamined some years ago 0 th the e merchants M e rc hants national bank 0 of f av altimore discovered a box containing I 1 in bonds of the pennsylvania railroad the ownership of which could not at first be traced the coupons tor for the preceding fifteen years were still attached it was finally ly Y discovered that the bonds belonged gad to the hagerstown Hagers town md bank end and h had id been deposited as collateral the president of the hagerstown Hagers town bank died the cashier was superseded ant and the institution lost all traces of the transaction the disappearance of the securities ho however always remained an unpleasant mystery until it was thus happily cleared up in one of the private banking houses of frankfort during the first halt half of the century a box containing a large sum of tooney and securities was deposited for safe keeping and when called for a few days afterward could not be found the banker himself received it and as he supposed put it in a place of security he was so overcome by the occurrence that he be went home and shot hip himself self the next da day I 1 bount the he treasure turned up safe and sound the receptacle having in a moment of absence of mind been stored away irk in an odd corner and an overlooked |
