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GUN UNDER HIS NOSE. Banker Tolleson of Atlanta Fined in Two Courts. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19.-J. R. Tolleson, the banker, was fined $250 and costs in the city court to-day for carrying concealed weapons. The fine was the outcome of Tolleson's escapade in which John M. Cooper, teller of the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, was a party. Mr. Cooper had refused to honor one of Tolleson's checks; the banker called upon him and, it is said, proceeded to "cuss him out." When Cooper undertook to resent this, Tolleson drew a gun and thrust it under his nose. The affair created a panic in the bank. Tolleson was first fined by the recorder and to-day the city court gave it to him again.