Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — Monon Sub-Agent Disappears With One Hundred Dollars. [ARTICLE]

Monon Sub-Agent Disappears With One Hundred Dollars.

Roselawn, Sept. 15.—A relief agent who came here Tuesday evening to relieve Agent Baker, mysteriously disappeared Wednesday evening and failed to show up Thursday morning for duty, and Roselawn was without an agent for a time. An official of the. company came Thursday on train No. 5 and opened up the office and the cash drawer. He found sixty-four pennies in the drawer and some revenue stamps.

The sub-agent had sold milk tickets to John Roorda and taken a check for the amount, which check he cashed at the store of D. K. Frye, where he also collected some $6 worth of freight bills. He stopped at the hotel while here, but had failed to register and his signature on the freight bills is unreadable, so it was impossible to learn his name. It looks like a clear case ’ of defalcation o£ the proceeds of the office while he was in charge. It was not learned whether any additional funds other than those above stated were missing, but it is thought there was probably considerable more, as the ticket sales are usually quite large for this point. It is hoped the fellow will turn up and show himself , all right and straight, but it looks bad at this time. He was last seen walking north on the railroad track Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock.

Later informati jn received from the railroad officials who checked up the office Thursday morning, is that the Allow got away with over SIOO in cash. The last seen of him was wheii Mr. Borem, of Water Valley, who runs an auto Hvery, was hired by him to drive him to Lowell. Hyland Weaver was put in charge of the office until Mr. Br.ker returns.