Show n HONEST NIEL REILLY A Cab Drlvcl Search for tho Owner of 50000 orth of Coupo New York Herald New Daniel York Reilly drives a handsom for the Cab a ComPany He is often seen SL Wall street and drives for several bankers TandbJokers One day last week he had a fare down town and was driving through Pine street to Broadway It was about a quarter to five in the after noon and the street was then almost deserted Lying on the step in front of the building No 7 Pine street Reilly saw a small papercovered parcel He jumped off the cab picked up the bundle and without stopping to open it tossed it into the boot and drove on with his fare to South ferry After he had disposed of his customer Reilly opened the Parcel and was sur prised to find that it contained a backa e of unpaid coupons of the bonds of tile Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company and a fewjother equally valua ble securities There was no name upon the coupons and no other means of iden iifyillg the owner > except that upon the outside of the parcel were written in one corner the letters E P Next Monday teilly took a day off and set about find ing the owner of the coupons lie went to a broker in Exchange place who had OccasIonally patronized his hansom and showed him the securities These coupons said the broker are worth 9000 and they are as negotiable as greenbacks You can sell them any where and at any time for 9000 There is no clew to the owner but he will doubtless advertise for them LOOKING FOR TIlE OWNER Reilly like an honest man made every effort to find out to whom the coupons belonged and even gave up his work to devote his whole time to the search Strangely enough the loss of the securi ties was not advertised and the cabmans broker friend could think of no way to ascertain as-certain who E P was but to find out who the transfer agents of the Chicago Western Indiana Railroad Company were andask their assistance Drexel Morgan Mor-gan Co proved to be the companys bankers but they at first refused to give the name of the owner of the bonds bear ing designated numbers When the circumstances cir-cumstances of the case were explained however they referred to the books and found that the bonds were registrred in the name of Edwin Parsons of Charles Parsons Co capitalists and brokers of No8 Pine street The broker called on Mr Parsons with the cabman and the package of coupons and rather an amusing interview took placeArc Arc you the owner of Chicago Western Indiana bonds numbered so and so asked the broker I am was the reply Why do you ask Because the coupons have been found in the street Why didnt you advertise for them 1 My dear sir with a bland smile for the simple reason that I havent lost them My coupons are safe in tho Stock Exchange vaults HE WAS VERY SURE Are you sure Certainly I had them out only the other day and took them back myself and placed them in the box I have them safe You havent got my coupons Theres some mistake Yes there is a mistake returned the broker dryly Are these yours and he handed Mr Parsons a package Mr Parsons bland confidence suddenly changed to a look of consternation Good heavens he exclaimed eagerly running over the package these are mine but how did you get them I l You neednt trouble to count them said the broker quietly j youll find them all there They were found by an honest hon-est man and he recited the circumstances circum-stances and hinted that as Reilly the honest cabman was a poor man with a family and had lost five days from his work in his search for Mr Parsons some reward would be in order Then said the gentleman who told a Herald reporter re-porter the story yesterday Mr Parsons put his hand in his pocket pulled out a roll of bills as thick as your fist and presented pre-sented Reilly with 20 Mr Parsons it appears had several bundles of securities in his hands when he left his office for the Stock Exchange He must have dropped the package containing con-taining the Chicage and Western Indiana coupons just after leaving his office just opposite which they were found MRS VANDERBILTS DIAMONDS Three years ago Reilly was employed as driver for a florists establishment uptown up-town One day he saw a junkman driving driv-ing through Fortieth street with an old trunk bouncing on top of his wagon Reilly wanted a trunk and he asked the junkman how much he would take for this one Twentyfive cents said the junkman junk-man Ill give you fifteen said Reilly Done said the junkman take the trunk Reilly carted the trunk to the shop where he was employed where it lay for some days before he emptied out the waste paper with which it seemed to be partly filled When he did so he found a beautiful diamond earring flashing amid the rubbish Then he made a more careful search and found a diamond ring The two wereworth 800 There seemed to be nothing about the trunk to show to whom it had belonged It was all pasted over with express companies com-panies labels and was evidently an old traveler When Reilly washed off some of these tags he uncovered the letters W H V painted on the side of the trunk He went to William JI Vander hilts house and learned that the diamonds had been lost by Mrs Vanderbilt upon returning from Saratoga and that the circumstantial evidence of theft had pointed so strongly to a servant that she hand had been dismissed Reilly was i somely rewarded by Mr Vanderbilt and was afterward employed as a driver on cars where he remained the Fourth avenue mained until a year ago |