The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-13

The Latest Eubezziement Case-Two Clerks
Of Beckmau street ON Their Travels.

The Latest Embozziement Case-Two Clerks
Of Beckmnn street ON Their Travels.
Mr.. scwetzer Is merchant In Beekman street.
~ carries foreign and domestic hardware
tradA Lately he had In his employ two persons Of
AN enee -prisng and imaginative turn OF mind. one
of whnn. was OF French descent, though born In
Louisville Ohio and was twenty eight years Of age.
HE WAS wiDowER
nj. Wife h,a rtifu young Frenchwoman having
died a littls mor,, han year ago, when after NOT
qure year OF n7edded llfe she had become
mother Her death was ascribed by many TO the
cruel neglect and hearth ssness OF inc husband, who,
young aud good looking, was sought ana won by
other associates, and forgos the girish wife whose
charms had lately delighted hn,s and whose pure.
earnest love ano devoted NE he had sworn to
cherish. When dying she left alitt.e baby boy 70
remind him sometimes OF the
PEARL MS BASE HAND HAD THEOwN AWAY,
q the nower he had rutnlessly crusnvu The
name OF this was Bondeville
Tne other OF the two persons In MT. ,Scwe HzerS
employ was man named Ferguson, born IN Glas-~
gov. Scotland, and lately OF the arm OF Ferguson
iiOweiir shor-,ived house. In the Jo,btng hayd-
ware business.
FERGUSON STOUT AND THIRTY,
@nn II was understood had never pledged his
sweet affections 10 any dame da4nsel. until
recently runors Of an o,D0re an cu'ar III ancient
IroJ-up the Overwhelming currenl In certain
circles, and fergusonls name MA naked there with
New Bonuevilie ana Ferguson were nearly or the
same age, nearly tue size AID neatly OF the
same MENTAL caiore, ana The heart OF seemed
equally calious. The chances os business naA
thrown them SIDE by side, ana uarne Fortune anew
up her hands IN ecstasy anu calculated,
WELL MATED y
Some time since the diamond discoveries Ia south
Africa were blaAel through The world ana among
The many thousands VINO read ol them were Fergu.
sou anu Bonneville. These two men, one OF waonl
Was without pity ana the other without scruples.
were bata easily mnuencea by the wiiisperings Of
Tf4tps, 4 h.xut
simultaneously 10 the nearest news stands 20 get
q copy Vi the HERALD, and eagerly scanned its
uelds On their way TO business they daily walked,
GOWN lie Bowery aad through Chatham street. that
and Australia diamond" suops, ana speculate with
each other on the most probable sizes OF
STONES TO BE FOUND IN AFRICA,
and what they would probably etcn gold. Then
they would guess AZ what the discount green-
packs wouid Oe when they got back 20 New York
dor they were gong 10 Airlca sometimes esti-
mated the rate OF rents Two three years hence,
ana the amount OF profits they would make at a
later indefinite time IN tae hardware manufacturing
business Sometimes not words came between
tnem. wnen one insisted upon haZarding an opln-
ion that the diamonds brought TO Cape Town
were some OF them larger than those they
would ind. On such occasions the coolness
engendered between them would mol wear away tilt
noon wnen beth went out to look al tue "Giamsadr
windows again. At last 1t was decided they should
sail on the nrst opportunity; aud they then sudden
ly remembered tey mad neither OF them an, moacY,
either 10 purchase an OUTFIT or deiray the expenses
OF their passage and African travels rms lIttle
oversight was soon remedied, however, BY resort
improved system OF false entrees iOrged endorse
nent5 prompt though unauthorized collections,
''sQuclcnedn receipts, anu ali the
CLERKLi GYMNASTICS
with ledgers cash books ana casn boxes famui-
arlty winch clerks heir 10. Oh these pleas
ant diversions or his clerks and Their lond aspra
tons the unsympsthizing Mr.. Schwetzer lgno-
rant, and when one morning DAY came thar passed
by without bringing 10 their accustomed places the
familiar forms or ''our MIR. Bondevilie' and ''our
Mr.. Ferguson" the Old gentleman was only
uneasy lest both should be III at the same
time. The second day he thought oil
ing them his own family physician, aud the
next there dawned upon his mind doubt, =
s.vague feeling OF unrest and an anxiety greater in
reaLion TO his money bags than with regard to the
health OF the vanished CLERKS. An investigation
hastily made disclosed the above facts and the
two clerks are now their way TO the lana OF SinOad
the sailor, where, among other adventures, they
VIII succeed in filing their pockets with precious
stones. and when they rich viii, OF course, re-
pay the money borrowed from Mr.. schwei,1er.