AN EXCITED CASHIER

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1609, 10 April 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN EXCITED CASHIER

A cashieb of a bank in this city has read so many accounts in the papers of late of bank robbers entering a cashier's house at night, gagging and binding the inmates? and obliging the cashier to go and open the bank safe, that he is very nervous ora the subject. He is satisfied that he will' yet have a visit of that kind, do what hemay to avoid it, and he thinks the next best thing his family can do isr to learn to go through the ordeal with as much composure as possible. Accordingly he hasbeen putting them through a rehearsal every night for a week or so past, greatly to their terror and inconvenience. He acts the part of bank robber himself. In thedead of night he awakes his wife, and pressing a vinegar cruet against her head, commands her in low, gruff tones to get lip and make no noise on pain of having her brains instantly blown out .with the vinegar cruefc. Then he binds her 7to the bed-post and. gags her with, the,' baby's gutta percha rattle. The children and servants he gags and locks up in convenient closdts,_and then stuffing a flat iron holder into his own mouth and pressing a bologna sausage1 against his temple he marches himself securely off to unlock the bank. Cold weather coming on now it is not altogether comfortable,;arid the family think they prefer iO take the risk of the,robbers, '','■