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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
228
"A
bank
in
Glasgow
some
years
ago
complained
that
a
letter
had
been
delivered
there
without
its
contents--halves
of
bank-notes
for
L75;
and
on
a
strict
investigation,
it
appeared
that
the
letter
had
been
intrusted
to
a
boy
to
post,
who
confessed
that,
being
aware
the
letter
contained
money,
and
finding
that
the
wafer
with
which
it
was
fastened
was
wet,
he
had
been
tempted
to
steal
the
contents,
which,
at
the
time,
he
believed
to
be
whole
notes;
but
who
added
that
when,
on
afterwards
examining
them,
he
found
them
to
be
halves
only,
he
enclosed
them
in
an
unfastened
sheet
of
paper,
which
he
directed
according,
as
he
believed,
to
the
address
of
the
letter
from
which
he
had
taken
them.
The
halves
of
the
notes
and
sheet
of
paper
were
subsequently
discovered
in
the
Glasgow
Post-office,
the
address
on
the
paper
being,
however,
very
different
from
that
of
the
letter
in
which
the
notes
had
been
enclosed."
"Complaint
was
made
that
a
letter
containing
the
halves
of
Bank
of
England
notes
for
L65,
sent
to
a
firm
in
Liverpool,
had
failed
to
reach
its
destination.
On
inquiry,
it
appeared
that
the
letter
had
been
duly
delivered,
and
subsequently
stolen
by
a
well-known
thief,
who
had
the
audacity
to
go
and
claim
the
corresponding
half-notes
from
another
firm
in
Liverpool,
to
whose
care
the
stolen
letter
showed
they
had
been
sent
by
the
same
post;
and
in
this
object
the
scoundrel
succeeded."
An
unregistered
letter
containing
a
L10
Bank
of
England
note,
posted
at
Macclesfield
and
addressed
to
Manchester,
was
stated
not
to
have
reached
its
destination.
Full
inquiry
was
made,
but
the
letter
could
not
be
found.
Subsequently,
however,
the
note
was
presented
at
the
Bank
of
England,
and
on
being
traced,
it
was
discovered
that
the
letter
had
been
stolen
after
its
delivery.
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