Adroit Theft at a London Bank

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1458, 18 September 1885, Page 4

Adroit Th eft at a London Bank

On July 4 an extraordinary bank theft was executed with extreme cleverness at Messrs Lloyd's Brink, Lombard -street, by a person described as a tall-gentle-niinly looking man, befcwee:i forty and fifty years ot age. A collector cilled, m the usual. course of business, with both town and country cheques to be cashed. These he handed over the counter; ' ' in their respective departments., and left them to be c aained while ha went away to tr.insact other business. In the meantime the cashier whose duty it was 'o receive country cheques, having examined his proportioned of the pay mants, amounting to about £150, handed bank notes for this sum to the cashier, who m his turn was required to pay over the money, together with the to'al of his own taking to the collector. When that gentleman returned, m an hour or so, ana applied for rhe money, t!ie notes which the cashier of Lloyd's had received from the country cashier for him were discovered to be stolen from behind the partition of the desk on which they had been placed. The number of the missing notes \bein°-, of course known, immediate inquiry was made at the Bank of England, where it transpired that they had been cashed only a few minutes previously, the recipient having demanded gold for the whole amount, carefully counted the coin, and betrayed no signs of haste or trepidition. This remarkably clever theft has excited considerable' talk among the clerks m the various banks. No blame is attached to the cashier at Lloyd's who had the notes under his charge, and sympathy is expressed for him under the misfortune of their lose. n V . .'