Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-10
AHRENs.
Examinations Before Squire Hall Yesterday
E~VenIns-The Case G%oHtInusd until
To-day.

G.. L. Ahrens, the embezzling cashier Of
Edward Warburg, was brought before
Squire Hall for preliminary examination
Yesterday afternoon. Colonel Hutchinson
appeared for the State, and Colonel John
Sale and walker Wood, EsqI for the de-
Tense.
The Magistrates office was crowded
with men-mostly personal friends or ae-
quaint8nces Of the prisoner, OF parties
Interested in the affair.
The prisoner was on hand promptly, and
though he had Lost something Of that
swell head, hobby air, which he wore
when proudly flying around the streets
behind Joe ~Seligman's spanking teams at
a speed that won him the so6rtquet Of the
" Flying Dutchman," and made him the
admiration Of the women, the envy Of the
swells, and the terror of small boys. he
nevertheless wore q certain sir of brsvado
and insOScidnce quite acknowledgements
ering the circumstances.
The first witness called to the stand
was Mr.. Edward Warburg. We do not
think it worth while to go into his tasti-
moDy In detail, as 1t tallies with the
poinss given by US yesterday morning,
bezzled. The following additional facts
were elected during his examination;
THE TOTAL AMOUNT
distracted in currency is $3.50, and
in gold $500. The first was taken
from the petty cash account and
the second from the cable teIe-
graph account money tor cable @Rpatch-
es being paid in gold coin.) The date Of
the first abstraction was between the 18th
and 18th of October, 1859, q mont or so
after his employment.
HOW IT WAS DoNE.
The method Of procedure, was at the
same time simple and ingenious, and had
Ahrens lived more economically, or in
such q manne as not to excite suspicion,
it might have been continued for an in
definite period; for by his own sworn
statement, Warburg had implicit
confidence in him, and never
examined his petty cash-book, and from
the manner in which it was kept, nothing
but q close examination, and that made
for the purpose of detecting fraud, could
have revealed the modEs opeTdad5, which
was as follows: On the leash creditor" side
of the petty cash book q column, which,
for instance, correctly added, should
foot up sos, is footed up, entered
and carried over, say, one hundred
and ffty-fve. This is repeated from
page to page, and rs the testimony
went to show yesterday, from twenty to
one hundred and fifty dollars is added to
the amoun on each page At the end Of
k0b hOnLu tue dLuOuub ChIE16u 70 L16
81 cash credit" side of the ledger cash &C
oun Is some three or four or five hun
bred dollars more than it should be, and
the cash balance is correspondence less.
No cash book being kept, and consequent
~ the entries not being itemized, swim
ding was comparatively an easy thing.
THE FIRST INTERVIEW
held between the swindled and the
swindler was thus described by Mr.. War
burg: any attention was called to the
fact that my clerk was living very fast,
and from certain things 1 thought I had
&etter lake a look at my petty cash-book,
which he had complete charge Of, and all
most on the first page l turned to | di&
covered how I had been swindled. Here
/ Mr.. W. detailed the method Of abstract
ing sums, as given abOve.l When Ahrens
came in, which he did while 1 was exam
lining b book, I turned to hin and told
him that he had abused my pnfdence,
and made bsd use Of the trust I reposed
in him. He inquired what 1 meant, and
I repeated my words. He then admitted
me- and added tina he had been led of
and induced to spend more money than
he earned by keeping company with other
Young men who had more money than
he.' l had then discovered that he had
abscraeted some six or seven hundred
dollars. and said so to him, and asked
him how much he had taken.
Having heard that he was in the habit Of
paying bills at certain places in gold, I
asked him II he had not been stealing Of
the cable telegraph fund (which is in
goId.) He admitted Immediately that he
had taken SISGof It," Mr.. Warburg then
detailed in quite q graphic manner, inter
rupted now and then by counsel, the dis
| covery Of other frauds, the penitence Of
the thief, his confession, the promise to
send for money from home and to make
| everything lovely, etc, etc, all Of which
IL is not necessary to recount here.
WHO HE IS.
In the course of the cross-exsminatiOn
Of Nj. Wsrburg, yesterday, IL transpired
at the wsrmest recommendation of Mr..
Hermann Stutzer, grain merchant, Ex-
change place, New York, who had known
his family in Germany, and who stated
hat their reputation was an excellent
one. This is apparent from his (Ahren's)
education and demesnor.
THE EXAMINATION
was continued after hearing the
testimony, of Messrs Wsrburg and F.
s.. Davis president First National Bank
until to-day at 2 O'Clock, the prisoner
going to jail in the meantime. Squire
Hall offered to release him on $1,000 bond,
but his counsel preferred that he should
fx up but one bond, and wait until the
amount was finally settled to do 80.
MAMMOTH SLAUGHTER OF DRY GOODS.
Bankrupt sale at Southern Palace, COM
mencing June 9Th.
GENERAL reduction in the prices Of all
kinds of goods at
T. ". JOHNSTON & CO.'S.
CT Tours HoNE .TaERNAI at Joa