Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1906 — TRUSTED EMPLOYE BEHIND THE BARS [ARTICLE]

TRUSTED EMPLOYE BEHIND THE BARS

Custodian of Tiffany’s Great Stock Arrested on Charge of Padding Par Rolls. New York. May :t. —After a service of thirty-live years with Tiffany Co., during which he worked up from odlce boy to custodian of the entire Jewelry stock of the firm, valued at millions of dollars, ami bad full charge of the pay rolls by which more millions were disbursed, John B. Brosseau is a prisoner in tlie Tombs charged with petty thievery. The accusation against him is, specifically, the taking of $•".- 000 through padding the imy roll of the employes of the comimny. l-iitei charges of greater thefts may he entered. In the a nest of Brosseau the police believe they have at last captured the man win. a year ago. stole diamonds valued at $90,4*00 from the firm, perpet rating tlie most mysterious and puzzling robbery with which the detectives have been confronted In years. While the prisoner is believed to be the tliief who lias been sought by the police throughout Europe and America and for whose arrest and conviction a reward of SIO,OOO has Usui offered, the immediate cliarge upon which he is held Is the larceny of SOO, although he has confessed to taking $5,000. ana probably bus stolen nearer SIOO,OOO.