Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — A Thief-Taker’s Observations. [ARTICLE]

A Thief-Taker’s Observations.

One of our banks (writes a New York correspondent of the Boston Journal) kept losing money, only in small sums, yet the loss was constant and mysterious. A celebrated detective was called in. “Let everybody leave the Directors’ room,” he said. “ Send in. everybody, one by one, who has had a chance to steal.” Sc the President, the Cashier, the tellers, the book-keepers and clerks had a private interview with the detective. Everyone.in the bank knew the purppse of the visit, and all but one were slightly nervous and tions of the chief. The last whoentered was a nephew of the President. He walked in cool, unembarrassed and indifferent, and with an air that said “ proceed.” He was dismissed, as well as the rest. The detective said not a word, left the bank, and in one week returned. He had been shadowing the President’s nephew. In a clear, fair hand was written out the whereabouts of the young man for the last six days, the company he kept, what he drank, the hours he spent on the road, his night orgies, and all his movements by night ana by day. Nobody in the bank knows to-day that the President’s nephew was the thief. That his health was not good,, that he was traveling in Europe, and that his place in the bank was filled by another were well known. The bank was saved from robbery, the famHy from dishonor, the detective commended for his skill and prudence, and was all the happier for a check of SI,OOO. A detective told me that in ten years be had never failed to detect the culprit. —“Mamie,” saida mother to a little six-year-old, “ if I was a little girl like you I would pick up all those chips.” “Well, mamma,” said the little one,* “ ain’t you glad you are not a little girl?”