Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — EMBEZZLER IN TOILS. [ARTICLE]

EMBEZZLER IN TOILS.

CONFESSES THEFT OF SIOO,OOO ANDIS ARRESTED. Con Aden tial Clerk Cornea <o Grief after He Appropriates Proceed* from Sale of Farm—More Dyn«ntte Ploti In DervCT. Confessing he had stolen an amount now estimated at SIOO,OOO from the stock exchange firm oi James II- Oliphant & Co., 20 Broad street. New York, for which he had been confidential manager for six years, George H. Brouwer was arrested in his home in Brooklyn and placed under $30,000 bail. The basis for the indictment was notTfrou wer’s from the Oliphant firm, but for converting to his own account the proceeds of a check for $2,750 which should have been turned over to Jay F. — Carlisle, a member of the stock exchange. Mr. Carlisle is wealthy and is a son-in-law of Robert A. Pinkerton, who died last month. ...Although there was a report that the embezzlement would amount to $200,000, this was denied by Janies H. Oliphant. When Mr. Carlisle was about to go Co his affairs to Brouwer, among them the —negotiations for the sale of a .fann_in_thfl_ Berkshires. It was the understanding that if the farm were disposed of the proceeds should be turned over by Brouwer to the Qlipbant firm and accredited to Mr. Cailisle’s account. The farm was •old by Brouwer and a check Tor the price. $2,750, was received by him. Instead, however, of turning over this check to the firm, he indorsed it and put the cash in his pocket, Mr. Carlisle did not return From abroad until recently, and it —was only a few_days.,ago that he began an accounting of his affairs with Brouwer. Then he learfied that the price of the farm was not to his credit. —When he asked Brouwer about it the truth came out. With this admission Brouwer made the confession that he had taken other money from Mr. Carlisle and that he had robbed the Oliphant firm as well. NEW STEEL BOAT GOES DOWN. I Twenty-Two Live* Lost in Gale on I.ake Superior. Twenty-two men and one woman are known to have been lost, and fears are entertained that another woman and two boys were also drowned, when the new •teeL steamshi p< Cy prus of _ the,Lackawanna Transportation Company foundered eighteen miles off the Deer Park life saving station in a heavy gale on Lake Superior. Almost dead from exhaustion, cold and exposure, Second Mate C. J. Pitta of the Cyprus waa washed ashore at Deer Park, securely lashed to a fragment of a life raft. It is feared that he cannot recover. Although unconscious or in delirium most of the time, he managed in a few lucid moments to give a disjointed but probably accurate account of the loss of the Cyprus, the first of the annual victims claimed by the storm kiug in the fall gales on Superior. The corpses of many of the lost have been washed ashore.

BARES MOKE DYNAMITE PLOTS. Denver Man Who Mailed Explosive tft <;«r»ru«r Owns to Blackmail. Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk from Bryan, Ohio, who mailed dynamite packages to Gov. Buchtel and several other prominent citizens of Denver.-Colo.. has confessed that he was also the author of letters mailed on Aug. 29 last to the Burlington railroad, the Moffat rwtd. the Adams Express Company, the Ikiniels & Fisher Stores Company, the Hay Shoe and Clothing Company and to Postmaster Paul Sours, demanding amounts varying from SIO,OOO to $50,000 and aggregating $190,000. These letters contained threats that unless the demands were complied with passenger trains would be wrecked with dynamite. tEe Daniels & Fisher and Hav stores and federal building in Denver would be blown up and C. M. Day, local agent of the Adams Express Company. would be killed within thirty days. Cle-ar Man and Wife of Murder. In Raleigh, N. C., the jury in the Rowland murder trial returned a verdict of acquittal. Dr. and Mrs. David Rowland ■were charged with poisoning the woman's former husband, Charles R. Strangel Alabama la After Railroads. Gov. Comer announced that the Alabama Legislature would be convened in extra sesame Nev. 7. The call will «n----brace nothing of State importance except further regulation of the railroads. Brady Make* Accusation*. Anthony N. Brady at the traction hearing in New York accused Thomas F. Ryan and four of his associates of looting the treasury oftifte Metropolitan Securities Company of $lll,OOO each. Oom milted Crime He Exposed. Kemp V. Bigelow, who revealed a supposed plot to kill Gov. Buchtel of Colorado and other prominent citizens, was revealed as an assassin when he confessed that he sent the machines. Bank in Ohio la Robbed. TTh* bank at Wharton, Ohio, was looted Thursday night by cracksmen, who. it m said, stole a large sum of money. Seversu m ores ai so v. • 1 r . Derrick's Fail Kills Three. TVree aaen were killed and several seriously hurt by the falling of a derrick where a new bridge is being erected for the New York. Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company ovdr the Cuyahoga I siver th Cleveland. * Priaoaers Floe; 17 Remail. ■b#lt padaouM hold in the eounty jail fa Afteodeea. •. D., awattfag trial Cor w rieos offenses, escaped the other nirfM. by sawing thraugh the ban st a window, fievetaea others reftwod to take ndvanfage of opportunity to escape. a