STICKING UP A BANK

Kumara Times, Issue 941, 6 October 1879, Page 4

STICKING UP A BANK

The following adventure which occured recently at a bank in the Coleridge district can be vouched for. It was Sunday evening, and the manager’s family, who reside on the premises, had been absent a t church. Some of the younger members returning early were rather alarmed to observe a light in the premises and their fears were communicated to a neighbour. This elderly gentleman had a redundancy of moral courage, and he resolved to earn a lasting renown by capturing the burglur singlehanded. Passing through the private entrance, which he found open, he securely locked the door behind him, and then secreted the key. This he did with sundry other doors as he made his way into where the light was. There was no escape for the intruder, and the explorer, though unarmed, was quite resolved upon a life and death straggle if necessary. At last he reached the strong room, and peering in through the door in order that ne might measure the desperado he had to contend with, he discovered not a ferocious burgler, but one of the clerks quietly looking over his papers. “ What a lucky 30b you knew him,” remarked a mend to whom he afterwards related his adventure. “Ah !” was the reply, “it was ; but I could hardly mistake him, in fact I never forget that clerk.” “ How’s that?” “Well,” was the prompt reply you see he brought me a dishonored acceptance one morning,”