A WANNING TO CASHIERS.
A clerk of the Columbia Co-operative Meat Market went, in accordance with custom, to pay £126 in gold into the Shoreditch branch of the London and County Bank. The money was carried in a bag, which the clerk deposited on the bank counter beside him. Something took his cyo from tho bag for a moment, and looking round again, ho perceived that another had been substituted for it, but so nearly like his own in size and shape, that the cashier behind the counter refused to believe that it was not the one which the clerk had brought with him until, on being opened, it was found to contain nothing but stones. Tho change must have been effected iu an instant, aud with extraordinary adroitness, by one who knew the clerk, his habits, and his bag, with the intimacy of a true theif.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2318, 21 August 1880, Page 2
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147A WANNING TO CASHIERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2318, 21 August 1880, Page 2
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