Show prosperity Is big at aid to EM embezzlers stolen annually by trusted employees in united states new york one of the results ot of apparently Is luc increased reused embezzling at all events embezzling has increased since tile alie war in ili 40 40 american security companies paid a total of in claims for losses e by embezzlement tile total loe 1 losses t 1 rough embezzlement by trust ell ed employees in the united states Is now conservatively estimated estlina ted at 12 annually the alie vieth methods of embezzling are in ili tini finitely tely varied A case detected delei ted inny present highly individual features ot of its own depending on the luge nult of the offender and in ninny many cases unusual arid and dra dramatic matle stories are its closed there was tile the southern who made away with some the course of a few years tind and by simple means covered up its his false en tries when the auditor came around to examine tits his books to see that nil all was ns as it should be tie he kindly offered to help by reading the figures aloud to him it was an affable gesture and no one was the wiser until a glaring discrepancy led to a less genial checkup check up the upshot of it wit was that tile the cashier shot himself on the other hand there are in ariente and elaborate methods of etu bezz lement that defy detection for flit years in fact so some me tire are never found out one surety company rec recently erill v listed 24 different methods through gli which undetected embezzlement wai take place that highly interesting list cannot he be published because it lq Is held it would simply constitute a tex textbook lbook on embezzling commonest form of borrowing the traditional methods ot of ming ere however still apparently the main ones in use of employees of all sorts who have fallen into the practice K F A st john dent of the national security wn com pany recently said they lihr borrow row from cash wi awers safes ls and aind cail il sections telling themselves they alipy lire entirely honest an and hot they a will restore the borrowed casl or becu t rl ties out of next nem months salary dalury or when nn their busl business ness venture succeeds alwy col conceal iceal their thefts by altering MI tries in inactive accounts keeping doeble sets of if loose leaves for aution in a ledger falling to it emet antei checks allowing confederates to open fraudulent uc count for combining with rellow employees ernp loees for ot or of the secret borrowing la 11 for und years until like ai secretly ser etly c ker iver it IQ I 1 lla clis covered cov covered tred only by its ruinous und dem ly size the rett rt sons that thal lead men to vill in tire lire lit in themselves it i cammi 11 tary on tile lie atves chev lead very if not lit an indictment of the life around I 1 them I 1 em when the tice mint of it 11 ruse IF of embezzlement Is published in i lie p newspapers luiere Is nearly nl viv along with it 1111 account of tile sons the person gave for hovin g the money the story muy inny he be brigl or sordid but it usually goes lap into the roots root of dumun nature an who tins has been investigating cases anses of embezzling for ninn v recently had this ills to tay say about all alln reasons that le lead ad nun men to TIP chief causes of widespread id present day cl cilmo q are 0 re lie HIP increasingly high costs of ale 11 re A luN lu urles and and the in ability of many canny persons especially tile lie young to eurn earn enough to ir their desires there Is une one great general cause closely linked to the spirit of the lie age covering the field more inore brond broadly ly ill the same olli cial said employees embezzle for needs private business speculation luxury dissipation os doctors bills women whisky even for charity that men have embezzled tor albru and charl charitable tuble purposes Is ont one of the most curious aspects ot f the lie catill catalogue ogue of mot motives lyes one such nui h in stance occurred in it a country town not long ago A rural fl financier nander mas found to have made away with more moie than hall ile he seemed prosperous robs enough not to need it what the in estl gators wanted to know had ad he hc done with the money then the rea son was revealed desiring to pose us as a philanthropist in a large way lie he had spent most of the money tip hp had illegally appropriated on charity A chicago melodrama A full plotted inelo melodrama draina unrolls as aa one reads reada the details of an ail en em hezz ling case in Ch chicago leago involving the cashier ot of a financial ti institutions institution branch branchi in the foreign quarter ohp cashier had an who came to the lie window tin and delau iten f n sum auni of money the cashier en that sum auto in tits his hooks tilli a number of cl pliers which colial ler ably increased we the ba balence lunce IN he depositor returned and drew inn n R very large und and both men livinie left WWI li twing althe 1 ey boull lie he discovered I 1 in once the orm llila they did will vui the loot us ns to tn buy at 11 laige fust mv expensive cur 11 hint t vol they vere lo its erv jwj ilip passed passe d through auml somi chase flanse kunle le till iii fit it surety of fiver annl lacni ans wn in progress i the had ti breazil m li presently near it a farmhouse wio dipre tho the necess necessary nry love interest miters flip plot the lm tty appeared atio some she precipitately with and the flip hend of flip Intro olo delit nn ill but they hey had lost time the were catching up and when the ab onders sconiers sc paused to in the lie next town to spend some borne cabre lubre of the loot on a trousseau they were might caught woman lind had proved their undoing securely handcuffed they were loaded on a trull bound east to jail then rhen while crossing the desert at night one of tile the prisoners made hla his way to fo a vestibule and leaped into the darkness the train was stopped and a search was made till all along the barren way hut but no trace ever found of him baumes laws law help the alie operation ot the baatnes laws according to experts has dune done a great deal to obtain the speedy conviction of embezzlers one surety cout company pany prison sentences ves more thun than years in 1020 and wore more than or offenders fenders received from six months to ten tea years imprisonment new forms of old temptations are constantly arising and lie process of embezzling sometimes becomes a business in itself it has been disclosed for example that the embezzling of merchandise Is carried on as u big business by skillfully organized hands bands and there Is now on record material to show that professional tempters make a practice of preying on persons who handle other peoples anoney traces were recently uncovered showing that there were three different gangs of men engaged in working upon the messenger boys boy fur for broker brokerage hous houss houses s with the idea den ot of framing up tit ren listle holdups hold ups find and jtb ill corwise getting possession of the se at curi ties es In trusted to th alie e hoys boys care nowhere on earth Is more money con than along new downtown streets where the limin caal messenger carries ills golden oil cm go ond and where money Is there Is I 1 i the lie embezzlers field |