Memorandum for myself, this 22d of November, A.D. 1921.
[A half-sheet of letter-bond paper, folded once and placed beneath the ink-well at Counter 2, Erie Trust Company, Port Hume Branch, by B. Pelo, cashier; recovered by H. Loomis on the occasion of the routine reconciliation of 14 January 1922 and copied by him on the reverse of the photographic facsimile of pro-70. The original Mr. Pelo retained in the breast-pocket of his coat from the afternoon of the 22d onward; its present whereabouts is not on the record. The text below is Loomis's faithful copy.]
By me, B.P., Cashier, Counter 2 — this Tuesday afternoon, directly upon Mr. Hume's leaving the counter.
Mr. Edmund Hume, of Hume Shipping Co., presented at 2:38 p.m. a deposit of cash currency in the amount of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), viz. two hundred (200) Federal Reserve Notes of the One Hundred Dollar denomination, Series of 1914, bound in four (4) bands of fifty (50), to be deposited to the credit of General Account No. 3, Hume Shipping Co., account number 02-000003½.
Mr. Hume counted the notes himself at the counter. Mr. Hume requested I not count them a second time. I observed the request. I have noted as much on the deposit slip and on the binder leaf.
I record, for my own clarity, the following:
The bands by which the notes were bound were paper bands of the Erie Trust Company's own contract printing. The bands are supplied to this branch, in lots of one thousand, by Friedlander & Son, Printers, of Quay Street; the standing order calls for ten lots a week, delivered Friday afternoons by Mr. Saul Friedlander the younger, who is paid the Friday wage of his trade. The press is the small Chandler & Price at the back of the shop. The bands of the current week's printing bear a slight burr at the upper-right corner, occasioned by a chipping of the platen jacket I have remarked of to Mr. Saul on his last delivery; he says he will replace the jacket on Monday next.
The bands on Mr. Hume's deposit this afternoon were of the current week's printing.
I conclude — for my own records, and from this observation alone — that the cash so deposited was drawn from this same bank in the days immediately preceding, was reassembled into hundreds and banded into fifties at our own counters, and was returned to our vault this afternoon by Mr. Hume in person. I do not advance any further inference. The matter is regular. The amount tots.
I write this memorandum that I may have it at my hand, and not at my memory, at a later sitting. I do not propose to communicate the substance of it. I leave it for my own clarity, as Mr. Loomis has been heard to say of his own schedules.
— B. Pelo.
[On the reverse, H. Loomis's hand, undated:]
He showed me at his counter on the 14th. I have copied it. The original he keeps in his coat.
— H.L.