Show I 1 vil scheme but it failed STANDARD speciale F chronicle service NEW oct 15 the banki balbine ng firm of 0 henry clews A co have for months past been the victims of petty thefts that were carried on by two at of their employees oacar oscar E aloag twenty one years old of 31 clinto place brooklyn yn has been in the employ of the house for over three years was placed in charge of the firms mailing department in ie do cember last with burgess as his ills assistant the mail business included the ending sending of about fifteen thousand circulars weekly and the clerks conceived the idea that if only eleven thousand of these were mailed mane there would 1 be 19 9 money in it for them this plan had bad onen imen ou successfully carried ont op up to monday afternoon when they were placed under arrest the thefts were discovered through complaints sent in by customers who bad had failed to receive their circulars the firm lost over 1000 |