Show man who stole million mi on Is paroled R I 1 J thomson liberated from prison will start over again austin minn ransome J cy thomson the farmer boy who edme to city handmade mid and made good Is out of prison dy cy served eight andone and one half years for embezzling from one of the largest racking packing plants in southern minnesota good behavior cut short a 16 15 year sentence and now cy Is starting over again leaving the firm where life was wai a drag cy got a job in the alie george A hormel company company packing plant lie ile worked a white while there and then went to business college to study bookkeeping returning he went to george A hormel formel 1 the president and said eald 1 I am back to make good and I 1 want a job to started at 12 a week ile he got that job and started out ont at 12 a week to oost hla his weekly income lie he sold candy among the 2200 employees of the plant pleasing personality sona lity and ability to work soon sent cy climbing to the position of comptroller of the tha packing company hold lug ing the confidence of i every one of the officials ile he needed 5 once and so PO took the companas comp anys money and then despite his ability as a bookkeeper hb was wan unable to put the money back in the company without attracting we the attention of theof the officials ficiala so he took more years drew more than a million all the time completely covering his operations with a cyster of lie ile would draw on a bank in ia birmingham and to cover that check would drew on a st SL paul and to cover that would draw on chicago Chlea gd and so on ile he always had a lock flock of checks in transit xo so auditors just check prop erly they just took cys word that the money was in transit feeling that it was ivan not improbable and cy was a trusted employee began to splurge before long cy started to splurge ile he had bad veon been left a 20 acre farm at le roy hoy allan not far from austin and he started to develop tills this into a chicken ranch H ho added other farms he be spent morey money like a trooper five thousand dollars t him was like five cents to a street buo vuo ui liln in sp spending endine cy found pleasure in being a good fellow lie he found friends and cy became bame austins akstins Aus tins outstanding babbitt even after cy confessed to the embezzlement bezz lement of more than a million dollars lie he lost few friends somehow to them it just seem possible that cy was a alef and too there was that element dement of taking money from a capitalist cy bell believed eved la in efficiency edl clency on the farms he ons developing they had to be adern in every respect and 1 to be modern cost money cy spent for one ruester to lend lead the flock of oakdale farms on another dalry dairy farm ix h t had electric fans to keep the cows cool vacuum cleaners kept them clean A powerful fan drove flies files into anio a corridor at the end of which was nas a screen door to lock flock falm lem up savoid saved the cows a lot of en I 1 lerey ero after the files were penned up WE they were given a good god do dose s e of insecticide sect icide club rooms for blands Pl ands for hired hands on his farms tie be had elaborate one felt ture aured of a music room library und billiard room the bedro orn linens were on the oakdale barnis nt at le roy hoy eve even 1 bulit allt 11 childrens park on in the ranch a special ire fire department wim was kept on duty cy even had a chicken chic hen lisl clin and surgeon to care for the tilling members of the hock flock which numbered in austin cy duill apartment houses und and bought up business properties ills his diversified interests made it necessary mary to to maintain maint nin nn an office downtown lown in which more inore than limn a dozen girls gills were employed once he needed a hoti hotel 1 to care for the many visitors coming to see lila his chicken ranch ittilio tine one lie ordered tits his tuan nger in it short time file lie hotel was completed and opened tills speed ananin for doings things brought thomson the name of cyclone which friends shortened to vy cy down on the 04 ranch cy built nn an expensive dance hall to make it outstanding he brought in some decorators from the hippodrome in new york and they finished it up rents renta farm for parking another time cy staged a mammoth celebration to show off his farm newspapers and magazines sent special writers for the event and where only a crowd of had been ex peeled chewed up oil so great wua the mob I 1 lint int la in order to care for tile the cars that thai canie cy told one of tits his assistants to rent 40 acres of land adjoining the farm and turn urn it into a parking irking Pl space tills he did the 40 acres were packed with cars all this time cy was taking money and he got careless and according to tile story told now once forgot to cover the check in transit A banker got suspicious so did the company and auditors were called telegrams over the country disclosed a real em but tile the officials tell how much cy had bad gotten when cy was visa confronted with tile the filets facts he said nothing but walked across the atie room wrote a few figures on a piece of paper folded the paper and gave it to the officials the paper bore tills this figure it later turned out to be the exact amount cy had embezzled while cy was in jail some of tits his faithful friends brought a band up to austin and he serenaded then cy went to the state prison and start ed a 15 year sentence from the start friends were preparing plans to get his parole they were rewarded otter after eight and one half years cy Is out now on a farm some where in blinne minnesota sott resting before he enters into business life in the meantime there Is considerable speculation as to what became of about that apparently never was traced some sort of feel that cy hid bid it away and some even say he may hove have hidden bidden it away on the farm |