Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-11

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ris went TO the hardware store of c. Mum
dinger on Main street, near Adams, with an
attachment, took charge OF the place and
closed it up. About the same time Deputy
Sheriff Semmes, with States warrant from
Esquire Coleman's office, waited upon Mr..
M1ndinger, who is the floor manager at
Losenstein & Bros. and arrested him upon a
charge OF embezzlement. 1t is hardly neces-
ssry 10 say that the party arrested felt if
something had dropped on him. He accom-
panied the officer, however, to Esquire Cole
mans office and was permitted to seek bail
with his lawyer, Mr.. Eirington. Alter some
| little time he succeeded in getting II. d.
Shanks and J. P. Finnie to 90
| UPON HIS BOND,
which had been placed BY Squire Coleman
| at $1,000. The news soon spread over the
! town that the Meszrs. Lowensteins had insti-
tuted proceedings against their chief en-
| ploye. The more interest was created by the
fact that Mundinger is prominent Mason
and Knight of Honor, and has always been
exceedingly popular. Few men in the city
have more friends than he, and few have
borne better reputation. He was popular
with all those under him and well-liked by
the firm. He has been the right-hand bower,
almost, OF the firm, and managed its business
here during the epidemic, while the Messrs.
Lowensteins were doing business in Louisville
and st. Louis.
ATTACHMENT SUIT.
Yesterday morning a suit for an attach
ment was brought in the Chancery Court by
Elias Lowenstein and Bernard Lowenstein
against G. Mundinger, from which the AP-
PEAL reporter collected the facts which fol- |
low. 1t is well known that these gentlemen |
have been engaged in the dry goods business |
for many years, and that they have very !
large and extensive trade. Necessarily they |
employ a considerable number of clerks and
statesmen to conduct it. In 1873 Mundinger
entered their employ, and has continued
with them from that date up to yesterday at
noon. He enjoyed the thorough confidence
of the firm, and filled positions of impor-
tance and trust with them. For some time
past ne
HAS BEEN ASSISTANT MANAGER.
In this position he was above and had con-
troll and supervision over most of the en-
ployes. He is married man, with family
dependent on him for support. When he
came into the employ of the Lowensteins he
was ipsolvent and without any means of
support, he having but short time previous
failed in business and lett considerable
amount OF debts unpaid. He had ne means
or income or source of revenue for the sup
port of himself and his family besides the
salary paid him by the firm. He became a
bankrupt in 1877. Lowenstein &
Bros. state that they were informed some
them by continual, regular and frequent EN-
bezzlements and thefts and fnisappropria-
tons of their money; that when this was
to them they were disinclned
10 believe it, and, while it made them I'M
easy, they did not give it much credit, and
hey retained the defendant without commu-
1icating to him what they had learned, and
without in any manner reducing his au-
hority and position in their business. AL
hough when this communication was made ,
o them they were also informed that Mum
finger had been
STEALING AND EMBEZZLING
heir moneys repeatedly and often for sew
raj years and to large amount, still they !
lid not wish to do him injustice by making l
serious charge hastily and without full
They were greatly attached to :
he manager and hoped that the information :
which was impaired to them, although re- !
eived from credible and truthful persons, !
Tould prove untrue. Since Mundinger has
cen in their employ he has lived
FULLY UP TO HIS INCOME,
nd that is the salary he has received from d
hem. He has been living in style which 5
Iould require more than the salary he was t
He has recently set up very
Expensive establishment and maintained it | n
a style far above his means. This is evil
ent from the fact that he has rented house
t high rent and furnished it extensively,
nd kept carriage and horse for his private Z
sc at livery stable, and he has been living ~
fter the fashion of man of wealth.
HE BUYS A HARDWARE STORE.
About seven or eight months ago Mum r
niger purchased stock of merchandise,
xtures and other chattels in the store No
II Main street, consisting among other e,
lings OF hardware and agricultural nipple =
Affar Tn1rcb tbiy ba 10 |
an business Herewith, and placed his name n
yer the door as proprietor. Mundinger did | X
ot quit the employ of the Lowensteins c
hen he became a merchant, but remained | N
their service, and he did this as they be- "
eve and charge, to continue the fraudulent III
Id criminal Interpretations of their II
-operty. The Messrs. Lowensteins state y.
lat they have watched Mundinger's conduct 7
I'd to their regret and sorrow have discov- B
I'd, =.
BEYOND DOUBT, ]
at he has abused the conf Ieuce they re- j
,sed in him by embezzling and stealing a
oneys from them repeatedly. On the 9th J.,
February, 1882, a memorandum of sale y =,
ade in the retail department of their bust ~
ss by him was traced up, and his employ
s discovered that he had by falsely mark 81
g on said memorandum or ticket 81 of w
ods returned, embezzled on this one sale b
e sum of 81. They have traced 20 him a A
mber of other instances, in which he re- D,
ntly in a similar manner cheated and de- Ii
luded them of various Gums of money. W
ley claim that this thing has been going =
for the past three or four years. They F,
We no means of arriving at the exact R!
lount stolen. They know that the stock !
goods in his new hardware store is quite W
tensive and is probably worth over $4,000.
ley think he has made away with at least IL
900 from them.
SEEN ON THE STREETS. a.
Several persons saw Mundinger on the pa