Show t i Insurance Company Cashier Arrested Harry M r. r Pierce 23 years of age Third avenue cashier of the tho Western n States States' Life Insurance com company pan is held held In in the the city Jail while an investigation is being made of ot the books of t the company No charge has been pre preferred erred against him PIerce declared today that ho he was aware some time ago that thata a shortage in the current accounts existed to the amount of 1000 and that certain oth other r members of ot the Western Vestern States Life LIto In Insurance Insurance In- In company were aware of ot this fact He said that there was vas also a discrepancy of but that this was nas not in the current accounts He lIe said he ho had been in the employ employ em- em ploy of ot the company two two years cars B B. N N. Coates an official of the local branch of the company said that he believed that Pierce had been taking money over the counter but that reports of ot the affair were very much exaggerated I at d. d It It Is probable probable that hat Pierce will be pe released on ball bail later 1 In the da day day- |