1875 – Three documents relating to bank drafts written to a Chinese man by the Jewish owners of the most prominent bank in Montana that were refused payment in San Francisco when the most important bank in the west, the Bank of California, failed as the result of its president’s felonious fraud
San Francisco: 1875. Unbound. The three documents are all in nice shape. They are: A two-page “State of California / City & County of San Francisco” partially printed “Public Instrument of Protest,” dated August 28, 1875. The document reads in part: "Sing Tie Kee . . . did..... More