GETTING EVEN WITH A CASHIER. Identification Made Easy After An Episode With A Mob.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 430, 21 December 1889, Page 3

GETTING EVEN WITH A CASHIER. Identification Made Easy After An Episode With A Mob .

It came about while I was on the road for our house, that I had to draw sums of money at certain dates at a bank in a town in Tennessee. The first timo I tried it I had a tilt, with the cashier, who evidently laboured under the impression that he owned the earth and ran the weather. He insisted tfcat I be identified, and put me to a great deal of useless trouble. I gave him my opinion on his conduct., and next month when I got around he put lr.e to the same trouble again. In order that he might thereafter^ be sure of my identity, I gave him the nicest black eye you ever saw, and in retaliation he had me arrested and fined .^3O. He made me trouble again, the third and fourth months, pretending never to have seen, nic beforo, and I was willing to part withftlQO to got even with him. One evening I found him at the railroad station at Decatur, Ala. There were thirty 01 forty o£us there waiting for a train. He knew me at a glance, but ho looked past me as if I were a nigger's trunk. I was looking the crowd over when I saw a man pass a woman and evidently whisper to her. She raised a shout and dodged away. She claimed to be grievously insulted, and as luck would have it she pointed out the cashier as the scoundrel. ! You know how they do things in the South ? Ifc wasn't a minute before he was laid hold of, a rope called for, and they were hustling him to a tree when he protested his innocence, gave his name and declared he could be identified. He had an opportunity, and ho appealed to me, I went up to him, looked him all over, and then said : * Don't think I ever saw you before in my life, sir !' _ Then they rushed him along, threw- the rope over^ $i»!b, and, while he was protesting ana entreating^ he was hauled up. I let him hang for about a minute, and then stepped forward and said : 1 Gentlemen, I fear you are making a mistake. Now that 1 hear his voice Ido believe that he is the person he claims to be. Let him down and we will search his pockets.' v ,_,«, -. - . _They<"4idD*J©f and the papers to prove his identity .w,ere speedily found. I went off.on the train, while a doctor was working over, fbhn. T^hree weeks later I entered the bank and presented my usual cheque. He was at the desk, throat tied up, and his face very white, and as I handed the paper in he took it, and smiled and bowed and said : ' Why, certainly ! Glad to see you, Mr Rider ! If this isn't enough, draw for all you want. We are always glad to favour our friends.' He had gob through owning the earth, and his neck was longer by an inch. — • New York Sun.!