The Bank crash!

The financial situation of Bank of Middleford is right now not the most brilliant. The new money transfer system by telegraph has been working out quite well but the investment side of the bank has not. Due to lack of investors the director of the bank, Mr Pinot, decided to take matters in to his own hands and started a fraud of large scale. By using the telegraph he managed to make counterfeit transfers in the name of Papandopulus. A name he borrowed from a Greek friend who did not mind. So far it worked out well if it had not been for Papandopulus using Mr Pinots name in a fraud against some German and French banks.

Mr Pinot to the right after a Tennis match against Papandopulus to the left
In the far back the Fench representative

It all burst open when the representative of the French bank came to Middleford to negotiate the interest rate of the latest investments. Mr Pinot is right now in custody, Papadopulus is missing and Mayor Flint is worried. Fortunately Mr C managed to recover most of the money by reverse engineering. He simply used the transfers that were telegraphed and made the same transfers in a negative number but in a high-speed transmission. Papadopulus did not have the time to interrupt the line from his hideout before the money was back to the Bank of Middleford. This so-called speed telegraphing was done by the famous telegrapher Eddie Eightfinger.

Eddie Eightfinger to the left in this picture. The picture taken before the speed telegraphing was made. In the centre of the picture Mr C with a fake moustache