Show I SOLVING MYSTERY III OF TREASURY lOSS I Assorting Teller of Sub Treasury Sub Treasury at Chicago Accused of Appropriating Appropriating Attempted to Get Rid of One Thousand Thousand Thou Thou- sand Dollar Bills and Suspicion of Detectives Is Aroused Money Aroused Money Was Stolen Eighteen Months Ago Chicago The Tho The mystery of or the theft of f from the tho United States treasury sub ury a year and a half halt ago one of tho the largest losses the government govern ment meat has ever suffered in this manner manner mannor man man- ner nor is believed to have been solved by the arrest at an early hour Sunday of George W. W Fitzgerald Others are believed to have been Implicated ii iq the crime which for months complete ly baffled batTled the government secret service service ser sea vice men Fitzgerald was an assorting assort tag log teller under Assistant United States Treasurer William Bolden Bolden- week Suspicion at the time of the theft February 20 1907 rested on him but so p plausible was wan his story and so intense his apparent Interest in discovering the thereal real culprit that Interest In terest ceased to center on him Much work was done on the theory that the crime had been perpetrated by a C colored lored man Meanwhile l FItzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- gerald was discharged from the government government government gov gov- employ for culpable negligence genco gence in allowing such a theft to be consummated under his very eyes The Th money stolen had been used and was tied up in packages some of ot which had been marked for destruction destruction destruction tion in Washington Any of them would readily have passed anywhere except for the large denominations None of the bills was under and some were of the 1000 and denominations de nominations the 1000 ones mating It was In attempting to pass two of ot the 1000 bills bUls that suspicion was again aroused against Fitzgerald He had also purchased a home and had been engaged in extensive purchase of eggs involving the outlay of or a considerable sum of money I |