Show I SOLVING MYSTERY TREASURY LOSS Assorting Teller of SubTreasury at Chicago Accused of Appropriating Appropri-ating 175000 Attempted to Get Rid of One Thousand Thou-sand Dollar Bills and Suspicion of Detectives Is ArousedMoney Was Stolen Eighteen Months Ago I Chicago Tho mystery of tho theft of 176000 from tho United States subtreasury a year and a half ago ono of tho largest losses tho government govern-ment has over suffered in this manner man-ner Is believed to have been solved by the arrest at an early hour Sunday of George W Fitzgerald Others aro believed to have been Implicated In i tho crime which for months completely complete-ly baffled the government secret SOl vlco men Fitzgerald was an assorting assort-ing teller under Assistant United States Treasurer William Boldon week Suspicion at the time of the theft February 20 1907 rested on him but so plausible was his story and so Intense his apparent Interest In discovering the 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 colored man Meanwhile Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald was discharged from the government gov-ernment employ for culpable negligence negli-gence In allowing such a theft to be consummated under his very oyes The money stolen had been used and was tied up In packages soino ot which had been marked for destruction destruc-tion in Washington Any of them would readily have passed anywhere except for the largo denominations None of tho bills was under 500 and some wero of the 1000 and 6000 denominations de-nominations I the 1000 ones predom loafing + It was In attempting to pass two ot the 1000 bills that suspicion was again aroused against Fitzgerald Ho had also purchased a homo and had been engaged In extensive purchase of eggs involving the outlay of a considerable sum of money |