The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-01
From the Illinois State Register.
Another Isans tsO5orry---i Clerk in ti,
STATE Bank detected in purloinin. ia,
Funds.

rom the ILLINOIS, state HCglstCr.
Another BnnIs tsooacry---A Clerk in thc
State Bank detected in purloining the
Funds.
We have the painful duty TO announce
to our readers that Mr.. CoRNwELL, one Of
the clerks of the State Bank here, was de-
tccted this week in purloning the funds
of the bank. 10 what extent lie has been
thus engaged, or how much he has taken,
is not yet known. About $50 dollars is
the amount SO far as asccrtalncd. The
manner in which he carried on his pccu-
lations shows that there are ways of rob-
bing bank which might never be disco
vcred. In the present case, acCi,icnt
brought the robbery to light.
1t appears that Cornwcll had in charge
as clerk the rca! estate account Of the
bank, which is kept in separate books.
The real estate fund consists Of money
loaned for five years on mortgage, the bor-
rover paying interest at II per cent. per
annum half yearly. CornwcIl kept what
is called tichier, in which he was to ell
ter, during the day, the sums paid for in
terest. Each day, when the bank closed,
these sums were added up at the foot of
the page, and the amount reported to the
teller, on whose books it was also enter
cd. Cornwell, it appears, was IN the ha-
bit occasionally of lobbing the amount
which some one person would pay in, and
leave it of the ticker for the time being,
by which means his ticker agreed with
the books of the teller to i cent. Alter
wards he was in the habit of entering the
amount on tho ticker, without changing
the sum total at the foot Of the page.
By this means it would be next to inn
possible 10 discover the fraud, unless by
some accident the pages Of the ticker
should be afterwards examined. This
was fortunately the case. Mr.. Campbell,
the teller, happened a short time ago to
have the ticker open before him on the
counter, and almost without thinking what
he was about, he added up page OF 1t, and
found it made huadrcd or two dollars
more than the sum total at the foot OF the
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