Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — Monon Sub-Agent at Roselawn Mysteriously Missing. [ARTICLE]

Monon Sub-Agent at Roselawn Mysteriously Missing.

(Special to The Democrat) Roselawn, September 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 for SSO 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 come $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 of 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 railrpad track Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock. Later information received from the railroad official who checked up the office Thursday- morning, is that the fellow got away with over SIOO in cash. The last seen of him was when Mr. Borem of Water Valley, who runs an auto livery, was hired by him to drive him to Lowell. Hyland Weaver was put in charge of the office until Mr. Baker returns.