Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — Swiped or Swallowed the Office Receipts. [ARTICLE]

Swiped or Swallowed the Office Receipts.

C. F. Reigel, the departed telegrapher, may have taken away something more tangible, than his consuming thirst. He either did, or els« used it all in unavailing efforts at slaking the thirst aforesaid; for he made no accounting of the receipts of the telegraph office during the month he was in charge. And besides the regular reoeipts of the office he also used some sl6 belonging to, Miss Spaulding, whose place as manager he was temporarily filling, and also failed to pay his messenger boy and various other expenses. He told the messenger boy, when leaving that he was going to Honolulu, but heJiad nothing like •cash enough to take him that far. A Mrs. Reigel in MCmcie, presumably his mother, has telephoned that she will make good all the shortage.