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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Drunk and disorderly. (search)
Alleged Fraudulent financial operations — arrest made.
--Yesterday, a man named John Burns, who is well known in Batavia as highly respectable, presented a draft, purporting to be drawn by the Canton Banking Company, of Canton, on the First National Bank of New York, and signed by Anson Chappell, for one thousand dollars at the First National Bank in Batavia, and got it cashed.
This he did at the request of Thomas Chappell, a farmer, residing in Elba, Genessee county, and to him Burns gavBurns gave the funds he had obtained on the draft.
The officers of the bank then telegraphed to the First National Bank of New York to know if the Canton Banking Company had funds there and received "no" for an answer.
Chappell immediately proceeded to the Farmers' Bank of Attica, in Batavia, and there tried to get a similar draft cashed, but did not succeed, as some other parties, with like paper, had preceded him, and the officers of the bank were suspicious that all was not right.
From there Chapp