Show oil OF LOSS assorting teller of sub treasury al chicago accused of appropriating attempted to get rid of one thou sand dollar dills bills and suspicion of detectives Is aroused money was stolen eighteen months ago chicago llio ahe mastery of tho the theft of from the united states bub sub treasure treasur a year and a half ago one of the largest losses the govern ment in haa s over ever suffered in this man ner Is believed to have been solved by b the arrest nt at an early hour sunday of george W fitgerald others are arc believed to have been implicated in the crime which for months complete ly y baffled the government secret ser vice men was an assort ing teller under tinder assistant united states william bolden u week eck suspicion at the time of the february Febi uary 20 1907 rested or on him but so plausible was nas hla his story and so intense his apparent interest in tho the real culprit that in terest ceased to center on him much aruch work was waa dono done on the theory that the crime had been perpetrated by a colored cohort d m mm in Alean meanwhile while fitzgerald was wag discharged from the gov eminent employ toi culpable negligence in allotting loNNIng al such a theft to bo consummated under tinder his deiy eyes money stolen had been used and was waa tied up tip in packages pick prick ages some ot of which hid been maikel for destruct aton in washington any of them would readily have passed anywhere except for the laige hige denominations nono none of the bills was under and some NN acio ei 0 of the 1000 1 and do nominations the 1000 ones it was in attempting to pass two 00 of the 1000 bills that suspicion was again aroused against fitzgerald ile he had also purchased a home and had been engaged in extensive pur purchase chae of eggs involving the butla of a considerable sum of money |