NYC EMBEZZLER JOHN C ENO AUTOGRAPHED ASTOR BANK CHECK
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NYC EMBEZZLER JOHN C ENO AUTOGRAPHED ASTOR BANK CHECKA rare old BUSINESS / FINANCIAL AUTOGRAPH with lots of interesting history as follows: Old white, black & gold printed bank check (2.5 x 6") from the ASTOR NATIONAL BANK, Astor Court, 34th Street, dated 30 April 1900, and nicely SIGNED John C. Eno. The check for $1,100.00 is made out to "Bearer." T are 3 cancellation holes punched in check above the autograph but otherwise good condition. The interesting story of Eno's embezzlement is told in this excerpt from his 1914 New York Times obituary: " John Chester Eno gained notoriety in 1884 when it was discovered that he had appropriated to his own uses nearly $4,000,000 of the funds of the Second National Bank. A few years previously his father Amos R. Eno, who was known as "the merchant prince," and who was said to have been worth $20,000,000, made John President of the bank though he was then in his early thirties. In the spring of 1884 the younger Eno suffered heavy losses in the stock market and used the bank's money to cover himself. When the news of his defalcations came out he fled to Canada and successfully fought extradition t Amos R. Eno saved the Second National Bank by depositing in it $3,500,000 worth of securities and $1,000,000 in cash. Its survived a run of the day and a half, but ENO'S DEFALCATION, coming as it
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