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Show Chicago. Tho mystery- of thi theft of $17G,000- from tho United Stntos sub-treasury n year and n half ago, ono of tho lnrgcst losses tin government govern-ment has over suffered In this manner, man-ner, Is believed to have been solved by tho arrest nt an early hour Sunday of Gcorgo W. Fitzgerald. Otherv aro belloved to havo been Implicated In the crime, which for months completely complete-ly baffled tho government secret sor-vlco sor-vlco men. Kltzgorald wns an resorting resort-ing toller under Assistant United States Treasurer Willlnm Iloldcn-week. Iloldcn-week. Suspicion nt tho tlmo of tho theft, Fobrunry 20, 1907, rested on him, but so plausible wns Mb story nnd so Intenso his apparent Interest In discovering tho real culprit that Interest In-terest ceased to center on him. Much work wns done on tho theory that tho crlmo had been perpetrated by a colored man. Meanwhile; Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald was discharged from the government gov-ernment employ for culpahlo negligence negli-gence In allowing such a theft lo bo consummntcd under his very eyes. Tito money stolen hnd been used and wns tied up In packages, some of which had been mnrked for destruction destruc-tion In Washington. Any of them would readily hnvo. passed .anywhero except for tho largo denominations. Nono of tho blllH wan under $500 and Boino wero of tho $1,000 nnd $5,000 denominations, de-nominations, tho $1,000 ones predominating. predom-inating. It was In attempting to pass two of tho $1,000 bills that suspicion was ngnln aroused ngalnst Fitzgerald. Ho had also purchased a homo and had been engaged In oxtenslvo purchaso ot eggs, Involving tho outlay of a conBldcrablo sum of money. |