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SHE GOT HER MONEY. Enforcing Payment of a Debt at the Point of a Histol. A highly sensational incident of the Beaver savings bank failure on Thursday has come to light. Some time ago a Mrs. Ubalto, the widow of one of the soldiers of the famous Light Brigade, sold some of her property and deposited $700 with the bank. On Thursday morning Mrs. Ubalto heard some rumors to the effect that the institution was not solvent, and would probably suspend in a day or two. She is a very energetic woman, and has a pretty fair knowledge of business affairs, and she determined to act promptly. Accordingly she went at once to the bank, where she found William McCreery. the president. Sbe was accompanied by her son, who is about twenty-one years of age, and they made a demand for the money. Mr. McCeery said that the bank had failed and that the failure would be announced the next day. Owing to this, he told her that he could not pay her the money, but said she must take her chance with the other creditors and get the same proportion that they did. This excited Mrs. Ubalto very much, and turning to her son she told him to go to the house and get a pistol. She gave her instructions in such a low tone that Mr. McCreery did not hear what she said and he did not suspect anything until the young man returned with a Derringer, which he handed to his mother. She promptly cocked it, and pointing it at Mr. McCreery she reiterated her demand for the money, saying she would shoot him if he did not comply. Mr. McCreery tried to appease Mrs. Ubalto, but she would not listen to him. and her son intimated that he was fully prepared to back up his mother's claims. The result was that Mr. McCreery went to the safe where he kept his greenbacks, counted out the $700 and gave it to the widow. She received it without a word and handed it and the pistol to her son and then, in true feminine fashion, fainted dead away upon the bank floor. The boy assisted bis mother home after she revived, but she was very much pros trated by the exciting events of the morn ing. The affair was kept very quiet, but it leaked out. The liabilities of the bank are not more than $30,000, and it is stated on good authority that every dollar of this will be paid.
