Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — SPENT THE FIRM'S MONEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPENT THE FIRM'S MONEY.

Disclosures Are Made In the Case of Miss Alice M. Barret. The motive for the suicide of pretty Alice Barrett, the Boston typewriter and bookkeeper, who at first was thought kill-

ed by lightning, has been disclosed. Codman & Codman, her employers, who have held to a theory of murder, now announce that expert accountants discover that their bookkeeper had stolen $3,000 and falsified the accounts and burned the cash book with a view to hiding the proofs of her dishonesty, and that they are convinced that she killed herself because of unfortunate speculations with the firm’s money. This clears up the mystery, accounting as it does for her life of extravagance and her speculations. The examination of the books shows that the money was taken in small amounts and carefully covered on the books.

ALICE BARRETT.