Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — LAFAYETTE P. O. CLERK WAS SHORT [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE P. O. CLERK WAS SHORT

Showed Too Large a Cash Balance and Inspector Discovered $1,200 Shortage in Accounts. Algie W. Murphy, a clerk in the postal savings department*of the Lafayette postoffice, was found to be $1,200 short by a postofflce Inspector Thursday. Murphy is said io have been a “good fellow” or to have tried to be one and to have ended up as most of that type of fellows do. He was trying to make himself popular at the expense of lis character and on government funds. , For a time after Murphy learned ;hat his juggling of accounts had jeen discovered it was believed that ie had skipped out and all day Thursday be could not be found, but that evening he gave himself up and stated that he' was guilty, le said that he had gone out to ;he country where he could be alone and determine on his plan of action. He decided that it was best i» face the music and he asked that le be .taken to Indianapolis, where he could plead guilty to embezzlement and be sentenced to the penitentiary. Murphy asked his wife to accompany him to the postofflce and there net the inspector, who went over the matter with him and then permitted him to go to his home with his wife. He was to return to the postofflce this Friday morning and try -to assist the inspector in straightening out the tangled accounts in his department. Murphy said that he had been going wrong for about a year, spending money with friends In saloons. He has a wife and five children.