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Show VALUABLE STOCKS STOLEN. Taken From a Safety Deposit Box by Trusted Employee. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Behind the publication by a detective agency in Wall street of a notice warning brokers and bankers that the assignment on two certificates for 100 shares of United States- Steel preferred stocks, amounting to 51S.000 and one certificate for fifty shares of Michigan Copper mining stock worth about 5500 had been forged Is a report that the certificates were stolen by a trusted man In the employ of Edward Ed-ward Breltung of Marquette. It Is stated that the employee expressed ex-pressed a desire to take a short vacation vaca-tion three weeks ago, After he had gone Erditung learned -that the man had left no definite address and told different persons various stories as to his destination. desti-nation. Suspicion was aroused and an examination of the safety deposit box to which the man had access was hurriedly hur-riedly made It is said to have resulted result-ed In the discovery that several hundred hun-dred shares wore missing besides the certificates mentioned. Breltung hurried east and found that the man already had transferred some of the sluires to his own name. Owing to the form of assignment which the certificates bore there is some question as to who will have to boar the loss. |