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Show How President Polk's Sister Was Robbed of $5,000. Mr. Thomas Gallagher, one of the registers re-gisters of the Eighth Ward, was talking about the Irish people the other day. "Buchanan was of Irish descent, so was Calhoun, so was Pollock." "You mean Polk," said a bystander. "No, Pollock was his right name. His sister lived near where I did. When my Tommy was baptized I went into the bank to get a twenty-dollar gold piece changed to give the sponsors $5 to hand to the bishop. At the same time the sister of him, that was President Polk, drove up in her coupe to draw $5,000 to pay off some help at work on her place. She came out and got into her phaeton with the money in her hand. Some young bloods were standing about watching her. Just as she sat down in the phaeton a young fellow, bareheaded and with pen behind his ear came out to the carriage and said: "Let me count that again. I have made a mistake." She handed him the money and he went back into the bank. She waited and waited, and as he did not return she went into the bank and asked if they had rectified the mistake and were ready to give her her money again. "What mistake?" asked the clerk. Then she explained the matter, and discovered that the young man that had come out of the bank and taken her money was a thief. He had slipped out the back way and made his escape. She never got the $5,000 of course. |