The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-11-13
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ACCOUNTS, HeTei was nlSlah6 eOWC
where of FIVE hnndred dollars. He claim
cd 10 have reunited five bundled dollars
ofwhich I had no account. Where, was
his remittance maied2, He Looked over
tue items. and foupd that remittance Of
Eve hundred dollars from Mon'pslierhad
never been credited TO. him. ] could;
find no account Of il anywhere; nor was
any letter accompanying IL oh 4 le. !
called George Sayers in and asked him
| if he could explain it.. HesAid hs could
not. He had never seen any such letter
no. such remittance had ever come 10
his hand. While the answer WAS yet
upon his lips the memory Of that letIe:
flashed upon me--the letter which | had
srso'a month beforehand | cast look
upon NY clerk which made him tremb|e
LAye--as my gaze grew more intensr, h"
turned pale. and fanced that he leaned
upon the desk for support, / dismissed
eiIm. and then finished my business with
Gibson The five hundred dollars Was
missing; but as | well knew that the let
ter conlainug that money had been duly
received at my store, | gave him credit
FOR it,"
Before again saw my clerk made
a thorough Investigation Of such matters
as bore upon the case within my knowl'
edge. I found by my diary that | was at
work in the wooden mill on the 8Ih day
ofJanuary. Gibson mailed Ills letter at
Montpelier on the 5.h: OF course the
letter which saw in my counting room,
when l sccidently dropped in there on the
afternoon ofcthc eighth,day WAS the very
tletter. ] left that lett";, with the money
In it-and now what had become Of it?-
| learned to my perfect satisfaction, that
after | went out on that afternoon no one
else entered the counting room until
Sayers came in. There WAS but one con.
clusion before me. George Sayers must
have taken the moneyi". And thus
reasoned ....
"When my clerk came in, and found
those letters upon the desk, he supposed
that The boy had left them. there, and he
did rot dream that | had b en- lLepe be.
fore him When | refolded the latter |
must have brought the parts of the wa.
fer SO nicely together, that my clerk did
not notice that the seal had been hrcken
When his eye rested upon that money
how easy for him to take ii, aud des roy
r the letter, and, in. case Il WAS missed, t.
, lay the blame upon the mail, for the mai
did sometimes make mistakes. 1t tap
prared to me an. absolute rcrri iainty thai
. the money must so have gone. And Thu
was not ALL learned that Gorge hat
, reoertly been spending considerable mo
ney in repairing his others house,
"In the evening", after all others hsc
gone, and the ouIer doors had been clio
!, S, d. called George INTO the counting
room, ard once more asked him concern
|, lug that letter and that money. HePaIe'
and trembloh, and declared that hetney
!, nothing Of it told him that it codl'
=. not 80 be. I told lin how had see
that very letter, and how | had lift itup
y, on the desk with other letters. The 9TH
;. letters we're all accounted for. but NJ
!. that one. Still he declared that he kncN
/" nothing of it. lold him that lie ha
g b..n spending considerable money o
late. He started as though had struc
, him"
"Mr. LAWSON he said, his whole fran
ouivering with excitement. "what none
70 70 have used was. honestly mine"
- y, al asked him where he obtained H.
~ f" "Nevcr mind" he quickly answered.
:, And then he Informed me tina, he woul
= answer no question outside Of the stor
while such charge was.resting again
g him. Ho declared thar he had served m
" " truly and faithfully; and that he had II
. :, ken pleasure in so doing; and he VOL
~ dared how | could accuse him Of such
l., thing" -....
rr II remember that | gare him a stel
m answer, and he. in return, vindi'att
nj himself in manner thai offended me.
Y. became impatient, snd demanded that
oi should make restitution. know tha' n
rs manner was naughty and oveTbearin
d. and the youth resented it. In the end
l, liniofmed.hi that l needed his serVic
DIV no more an ! told him that ont Of co
Fnl sideration for the feelings Of his moth
iv. and sister, | should not bring him
III Justice. In short ! turned him from n
lin mploy, and, the cause ofTny so doil
could not be hidden fIem tie people
of the town. l cannot tell you all that
of said TO me. With one breath Ire Won
,ad plead his innocence in tears; and vi
ss another breath he would dtnounce me-
en- bitterest terms for my treatment OF hin
rid "Mrs. Say yers, came to me TO plead
ed; her boyj but she had no power to ma
|,d ne waver in my deIermiuation.'
,.ct planned 10 her the evMenos'l had of
dishonesty; and though she could
,nts believe her son guilty, still she could
ere tighten the weight of testimony agNi
bv him."
,on, 81 engaged clerk, and put the mi
arv ing five hundred dollars to profit
ION. loss Sometimes wondered il, by SO
ma. possible means, George Saytrs could
riv. innocent. But l could, potse it, "
"a new clerk was not worth half as mi
, il for business as George had been; an
ma. doubted if could find another to fill
dav place as it had been filed"
rim. "Of course l could not be iguoran
1ery the movements o young Sayers after
on | left my store. AT the end Of month
/ found employment in adistant town;
the he did not remain there long. The 81
rom of his disgrace finally followed him,
we're he was discharged. He came home,