People leave some strange things in banks. A customer of the Belconnen Mall branch of the ANZ Bank left a parcel containing an anguished letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Mrs Bixby, of Boston, in November, 1864, expressing his sympathy over the death of her five sons in the American Civil War. It looks like a replica. The parcel also had several 1950s colour photographs of smiling babies.
Bank supervisor Leighanne Hobden said the parcel had been left around noon and not claimed by close of business. The owner can claim the parcel (on proof of ownership) at the bank today, after which it will be sent to police lost property. Perhaps the whole thing was intended as a frame up.