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Show Pretty Good Old Fellow. Simon Bamberger is a pretty good old fellow. He has a kindly heart in his body, as will be seen. Employed in the Bamberger-De Lamar mill, at De Lamar, New, is a boy, who formerly for-merly served as messenger for the Western Union Telegraph company, in this city. This boy had access to the cyanide room, and during the last few months, by careful peculation, taking a little at a time, succeeded in getting away with about $2,400 worth of cyanides. cyan-ides. As his success progressed he became be-came careless and in taking the amounts from time to time, increased his thefts so that he. , was detected. Ho was- carefully watched and evidence enough, secured to convict him. He became aware of his position, and, learning that Mr. Bamberger was coming com-ing after him. hit the trail on a burro for Milford. The burro gave out and he made the balance of the journey on foot. At Milford he was apprehended. Instead of having him sent to jail. Mr. Bamberger sent for his mother, who is a widow lady of this city, paid her far-.' j to and from Milford and her expenses i and confronted the boy with her. What passed between the three is sacred, but the result was that Mr. Bamberger informed in-formed the lad that he would be given a chance to redeem himself and would be given a chance to make a man of himself and support' his mother, who was very much agitated at the position her son had placed himself in. Not many men would have done that, but Mr. Bamberger did it. Truth. |