Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-02-12 | Page 7 | "Ponies" Proved Downfall of House Cashier

Ponies Proved Downfall Of House Cashier In the beginning of the tha first Fifty-first congress ss C C. E H. Silcott cashier of the sergeant at office of the house absconded with the salaries of a A. number num num- ber bar of ot th the members members about about A reward vard of was offered for his apprehension but from that day to this no reliable Information has ever been received of ot the missing manThe man The members lost nothing however as they voted themselves out of the treasury the money that had been stolen The cau cause e of or SIlcott's downfall was that lb he believed ll he could beat a the ehr hr lt horse e races c with h his system m which I Ie was to play the second c horse e en In n the h i ion betting e I both h ways y and g take en n no t tips on any other horse In the race His s i system proved successful at the start and In a short short- time he was several several sev say eral thousand dollars to the good Finally his system began to go wrong and when he got behind he commenced plunging It Is said that If the government officials when they first discovered the tho defalcation had seized the books of the poolroom where Silcott placed his bets and 1 betting petting sheets they would have discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered where 40 of ot the stolen money went Times have changed much In Inthe Inthe Inthe the last few years Husbands are areno areno areno no longer only half sh shot Hart shot Hart Hartford ford Times