Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — J. Pierpont Morgan’s Office Boy Missing—So Is $10,515. [ARTICLE]
J. Pierpont Morgan’s Office Boy Missing—So Is $10,515.
New York, May 26.—J. P. Morgan & Co. today requested the police to search for Wm. McManus, an 18-year-old office boy, on a complaint that he disappeared shortly before noon today, taking with him ,$16,515, representing the firm’s weekly pav roll. According to detectives who investigated the boy’s disappearance, it was McManus’s duty to distribute payenvelopes of the firm every Friday. Another office boy employed by the firm also disappeared about the same time. McManus had been in the employ of the firm two years.
