People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — LEFT THE COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

LEFT THE COUNTRY.

The Man in Charge of the Swiss Display of Watches at the hair Gets Away with About 830,000 in Cash and Goods. Chicago, July 26. IL Bertrand Nemitz, of Switzerland, left Chicago Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and is probably now under arrest at Toronto, Can., charged with a $30,000 embezzlement Nemitz came to the world’s fair in charge of the exhibit of watches that is made by the famous watch factories of Geneva, Switzerland. He represented thirty firms. It was discovered that he had been making sales of goods and pocketing the receipts. Nemitz took alarm when an inventory of the exhibit was ordered by the Swiss commissioner, acting on the advice of secret service men of the treasury department, and left at once for Canada. From Sarnia, Ont., he wrote to a woman with whom he was living, Josephine Wagnon, directing her to start at once for Toronto, and to meet him at the Rossin house in that city. He instructed the woman in this letter to “bring all of the watches and jewelry that there are in the house and all the articles of value that you can get your hands on. Commissioner Perinaud says that when Nemitz left he took everything in the safe, the amount of currency that he obtained in this way being estimated at $5,000, and the amount obtained from sales at $25,000.