People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Half a Million Short. [ARTICLE]

Half a Million Short.

Tacoma, Wash., April 24.—The experts who are examining the books of Paul Schulze, late general land agent of the Northern Pacific railway, have found that his defalcation amounts to over $500,000, instead of a few thousand, as was at first supposed. The shortage, it is said, may even reach the enormous sum of $700,000. The embezzler, who was one of the best-known railroad men in the country and an influential resident of Tacoma, committed suicide a few days ago.