Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Crawfordsville Deputy P. M. Short Between $800 and $1,000. [ARTICLE]

Crawfordsville Deputy P. M. Short Between $800 and $1,000.

Edward Dennis, the deputy postmaster at Crawfordsville, was'tound short in his accounts between SBOO and SI,OOO by the postoffice- inspector a few days ago. The shortage was made good by the postmaster, R. C. Walkup, who dismissed Dennis. Dennis later confessed to the shortage, admitting that he had been guilty of small peculations for some time and had succeeded in covering up the shortage by counting the stamps when the inspector »came around and reporting;, enough on hand to make the accounts right. This time the inspector counted the stamps himself and discovered the shortage. Dennis received a salary of $1,300. An effort was lAade to keep the shortage a secret and have it appear that Dennis had resigned, but one of the members of a committee that went over the accounts for Dennis, confided to his wife that Dennis was short. She went to a theatre and told another woman, and then it went like wildfire.