A ROMANCE OF THE SAVINGS BANK.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 282, 2 June 1909, Page 8

A ROMANCE OF THE SAVINGS BANK.

l.ii Now York recently a savings , bank had an account which had been j on their books for fifty years. This particular bank was very anxious to ! get rid of the money, hut did not ' know whore to find the owner or his j heirs. Finally, one Amos "Williams; was located. The man was then 1 seventy-Jive years old, and in straitened ci re urn stan cos. But he wa.s honest enough to admit that he knew nothing of ever having made a deposit at the banje. But fifty .years ago, ho said, he went on a spree. "When he awoke all his money was ! gone. Whether be deposited the money while intoxicated, lie could not say. Tho bank had tlio original . sign si"ture of the depositor of 50 years ago, and it was decided to -compare it with the signature of old Amos Williams. The bank signature : \yas not altogether steady; ; ian;di;|t;lod}v|d .might- have been w'htaflo^ b^va):;rnaii at least partly under thV'iivnuence of liquor, and when the two signatures ,were compared all doubt was dispelled. Throughout all those years the muii'hnd preserved in a remarkable degree all the little characteristics of hisvliandwriting while, young.