The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-09

whether the thief was an outsider or an
employee, to state that this Is the sixth SINH
lar loss which the treasury has experinced
since Spinner became treasurer, and that,
In each former instance, the money, either
In whole or in part, has been recovered.
This, too, may account for the confidence
of General Spinner and the detectives that
this money, will, also, be recovered. Re-
lative to the manner In which these other
stealings were recovered, we have no infor-
nation from official sources, but recent
kilograms, from Washington, state that
the money was discovered in some unusu-
al places in the department itself. As
bearing upon the question OF outsider or
employee, it is a significant fact that, until
quite recently, these five former robberies
have been studiously concealed from the
public, and the only notice, if any, of their
loss has been the floating rumor, set ahoat
after the recovery, that some packages of
grecnbacks have been "mislaid and soon
found" But now the matter is called by
its right name; the money was stolen, and
to save detection it was placed where
another search would cause its discovery.
The money was found, investigation ceas-
ed, and no arrests were made.
The method pursued to recover the pro-
ceeds of one of these robberies, and the
name by which it was called, is detailed
with coneidor,I,la M rt;cula r;t,, In N Waeb
ington telegram, but we have space for
only general outline, which we give, as
it tends, in our judgment, to place the re-
sponsibility where it belongs, and to show
that these repeated robberies are commit
ted by employees of the department Some
time in 1878, it was given out that the FIVE
hundred dollar greenbacks had been so sue
cessfully counterfeited that they could only
be distinguished from the genuine by ex-
perts of the department, and it had, there
fore, been determined to call In and with
The issue was called in and the stolen
money recovered. 1t was we'll known at
| the time that the FIVE hundred dollar notes
were printed on larger paper than the
notes of a lesser denomination, and they
could not therefore have been altered OIL
| raised, and it seemed to follow that the
whole note was forged. In an examina.
ton before the house committee on bank.
ing aud currency, last winter, it transpired
| that the five hundreds were printed or
/" fbrous paper" and that none of it had
| disappeared, 50 that, if there were any
counterfeits, they must have been of thai
nature that the slightest inspection on the
part of any bank officer would have at once
disclosed the fraud. This alleged counter.
| feiting is now called robbery, but the
course pursued led to the recovery of the
money, and the department was satisfied
No one questions the perfect integrity o.
| General Spinner, and he is only blamed fol
his over confidence in his employes-bu
his anxiety not to "sap the foundations
of g the social order" may be a sufficient
excuse for him. We do not believe that
the secretarys order will stop the stealing
although it is well enough to keep visitors
out of the money drawer-but we trus
that General Spinner's successor will I'M
derstand that department employees are no
entitled to implicit confidence that they
as well as outsiders, aoiN steal, and govern
himself accordingly.