Show J I MYSTERY Y I OF T LOSS f Assorting Teller of f Sub Tre Treasury Sub sury at Chicago Accused of Appropriating Appropriating Appropriating Attempt Attempted to of One Thousand Thou Thou- sand und Dollar Bills and Suspicion of Dete Detectives Is Aroused Money Aroused Money Was Stolen Eighteen e n Months Ago Chicago The The mystery of ot tho the theft I of ot from tho the United States States' treasury sub a n year ear and a half halt ago one of or the largest losses the government govern ment meat has ever over suffered in this manner manner man ner is believed to have been solved by the arrest at an early euly hour Sunday of ot George W W. Fitzgerald Others are believed to have havo been implicated Inthe iq In the crime which for tor months complete Iy ly baffled the government s secret cret service ser ser vice men Fitzgerald was an assorting assort Log Ins teller under Assistant United States Treasurer William Balden- Balden e week eck k Suspicion at the tho time of ot the theft February 20 20 1907 rested on him but so plausible was his story and end so intense his apparent Interest in discovering the real culprit that Interest Interest In In Interest terest ceased to center on him Much work was as done on the theory that the crime had been perpetrated by a colored man Meanwhile Fitzgerald Fitz gerald was discharged from the government gov sov employ for tor culpable negligence nestle gence in allowing such a theft to be bo consummated under his very eyes The money stolen had been used and was tied up in packages some of or which had been marked for tor destruction destruction tion In Washington Any of ot them would readily have passed anywhere except for tr the largo large denominations None one of ot the bills was under and some were of ot the 1000 and denominations de de- de nominations the tho 1000 ones predominating It was in attempting to pass two of or orthe the 1000 bills that suspicion was again aroused against Fitzgerald He Ho had also purchased a home and had been engaged in extensive purchase of ot eggs Involving the outlay of a considerable ra le sum of money |