Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — STEALS FOR PARENTS [ARTICLE]

STEALS FOR PARENTS

A GIRL CONFESSES HAVING ROBBED HER EMPLOYER. Peculations Latterly Have Reached $lO to S3O a Day and May Reach Total of More than $2,000 —Hot Stable Blaze in Chicago. .. ■ - -J—• . v~ Weeping in n cell in the Tombs in New York was Mjss Mary E. Gisldiug, who, despite the grief that swayed her and in spite Of her disheveled hair and disarranged dress, was plainly a person of education and refinement. Miss Golding had been held in the afternoon by Magistrate Finn for trial before special sessions on n specific charge of stealing sl2 from the Larkin Soap Company, for which firm she has been tashier for the last four years. Self-accused, Miss Golding had told of stealing about 52,000 from the firm. She said she did not know but the sum of her stealings might run considerably above this. Edward F. May, manager of the firm, did not Wish to prosecute the charge, but as the woman had confessed her guilt there was nothing for the magistrate to do but eommit her for trial. She confessed that it was for her father, mother and invalid sister In Buffalo that she had stolen principally. The firm learned also that Miss Golding had a suitor, a respectable business man, whom she was engaged to wed. In order to dress so as to appear pleasing to the man she loved and yet be enabled to send money to her family Miss Golding had to increase her peculations. For the last three months she had taken daily sums of from $lO to S3O and had spent days and nights of torture, she told Mr. May. dreading every minute that exposure might come. Oddly, she never was suspected. Her system of falsifying the books was not discovered, so cleverly was it done.

BURNED IN GRAND STAND. County Fair Visitors Suffer in Fire Panic in Bucyrus, Ohio. While the races at the county fair in Bucyrus, Ohio, were on, the grand stand •was discovered to be on tire. A panic followed the first announcement. Spectators in the grand stand rushed for the exit, which soon blocked the only passage to safety. Excited women, children and men leaped over., the front of the stand upon the track, twelve feet, and many were injured. Those who left the grand stand last were badly burned, as the big pine building went like tinder. Three minutes after the fire was discovered the stand was wrapped in flames. The fire was caught by a stiff breeze and was driven across the grounds, communicating from building to building. The horticultural hall went like powder. The photographic art building and newspaper headquarters were destroyed. School exhibit hall was badly damaged, and some of the stables were burned. In less than a half-hour the entire fair was wiped out.