Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-07-10 | Page 6 | Frauds in Office of the Southern Pacific

FRAUDS IN OFFICE OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC PACIFICA A dispatch from San Francisco says Extensive frauds perpetrated by a new method have hao been heen In the freight department of the tho Southern PIl Pa company Three men have he been en dismissed Cl from m the compan s Pending nn investigation of oC shortages which hav occurred In funds with which they had to lo do doThe doThe The three e men whose work is no now under investigatIon are Bedford Cam Cameron Cameron eron a freight clerk in the empio or of orthe the company compan 12 ears Gordon ion den n fl of Chief Steward Glidden or of orthe the Toyo loyo Kison the Japanese steamship line in the employ of the company 10 years ears and a clerk named for eight years in the em cia employ ploy plo of the Southern Pacific They I have hae been workIng under antler Melville C Cleaves assistant local freight agent I No arrests have yet been made as the au auditing lUng department of the com coin compan pan has not yet completed its ils ex cx and cannot yet et place the ro re responsibility for the Ule but It is estimated that the tho loss lo to the corn com him has been between 1000 an and The very cry method of the bold oper operators operators was calculated to shorten the period of t their The Tho scheme was to change deposit tags when heu mon monC C ey was ms taken to the Ule hank The embezzler would take a lain tam sum of mone money to a hank batik for de dc deposit posit Between the railroad office and the tho bank there would be a sum extracted from flOm the total un and the de tag fixed to represent the tho re reduced amount This process of In was carried on for some weeks with considerable success bitt on the return of Hardy from the east ho look looked ed close closely into the lie workIng of his de department and found that the tho accounts lid did nol appear correct He set tilt tue auditing dell department on the scent of f the missing coIn