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Show HE BLEW IN $50,000. A Clerk in Tiffany & Co. Played the Kacea and Kobtted His Employers to Fay. New York, April 22. .lames A. Palmer was arrested yesterday charged with the larceny lar-ceny of $50,000 from Tiffany & Co. The stealing has been carried on more than five years. Palmer acknowledged his guilt and to the officer said he wished he had shot himself. him-self. The prisoner's father and Charles L. Tiffany were close friends from boyhood boy-hood until Palmer's death several years ago. The Palmers manufactured fine bronzed roods for the Tiffanys, and owing to the intimate acquaintance between the Tiffanys and Uie elder Palmer, the bills between be-tween the houses were audited very loosely, and for the last live years young Palmer Las taken advantage of this fact to swindle the Tiffanys. The matter was discovered by accident, ac-cident, and It is thought that the amount may exceed $50,000 when the books are carefully care-fully examined. Palmer has been play-inr play-inr the races and losing heavily. He has a family and wife who are completely prostrated. |