The Worthington advance., 1882-02-16
YOUNG MANS RUIN.
Douglas W VanderhOt a Trusted Employ
o! the First National b INK Of st. p&ut. En-

Douglas W fanderhDt 4 Trusted Employ
0! the First National b INK Of st. paut. En-.
bezzl Nearly Fl;'y Tnon and D"llais.
On +. ida, 10th Douglass ". van1erhoof, Ii
tIu=ted lead book keeper of the First N a,io::.i
ak at St Paul was arrested by U:l.t Il St4t,e
Marshal McLaren on CT arge OF embezzlcmeiii
prefer, against him by lAe bank
For q week Or two previous there were III.
mors OF crcokedness on tho part O!
Eandcrhoof, who had been box, spccu!asor il
wheat op nS, bat they were discrelitel. Al
Investigation however, showed tbs full ex-
president Of the bauS, in IN interview says:
He has CO! fessed tom,-did 70 +, " Gays ago
-Ais thefts ald his manner Of proceed are, and
has aided me- IL my search for the facts by h
confession OF dates and circumst.nces HI
first copmenced his wong doicg las:
June, IN e',v nnt ,v ony ny ,Sa went il: io tt
N , one Of the other employees OF ,i4y bank.
nor, as far rs know, any Que ese, WAS in tht
slightest way il colluslon with Vanuer1:oof !;
his l:efa'c .tions. He ac!e! foc himself hr5ugh
out :snu Why he should Lave stolen aud Low Lc
ioag:i'ed he could cscape detection absolute
passes my comprehension.
Wand: r O0f was general bookkeep I, ard had
:otii-g to do "l!h .iio u; ara;e boo;s 7elatir:,
70 deposits, exchanges, etc those are kept h,E
;lai e msn, who sre responsible fer the;.
work, blt when the general balance vas st,uc:.
in tue IveniuH the several totals were, OF
co rsc, recorded in tie general boohs
iag to !clp HE fellow clerks, ..ld used to do 20
trtI .enly. We have maa VIII 8, duty it j.,
10 ihake cut drafts Oh our correspusde u,>
abroad, but Doug. would watch Lis chance,
when that man VS. out-ha gone to linn.r r,
OR so1ne'hiue,-an would make out :'ata On
= Culc4so i,a'a for $ ,uu'', s'y: Ti.is drat,
he wou Il tav tiSrsl byn 9 by NJ. G lillian,
ti,.- wee mr.: rijot Il Mr. t,a1tv h..
and would take it and place II IN some way,
getting tie MOI ey on 1t, Of course, but neve.
entering itin The account
Bal ey, The cashier, and myself had been over
tie books and accounts in lerson. We have
followed every t~iss and turn, anu Lave left 10
means uu,rled o IT ach the bottom facts Tie
resnlF is that We find Mr. Vanderhoof has takel,
~, 60 (he says $4S 900, and til t nay be
sum OF xhleh i 1900 has beer, returned
i'll cash and ecuriti-s, leaving tn, tota'
Abstract 81 1t $35 6Oi:. This arc The exact
figures ard you may a W. II know th NJ H. va
e o. { eInp:oye III the lAuk, not executing
Mr. Bailey, the cashier, and we trusted him i'm
plicitly.
Another Iowa Sensational Divorce Case.
Des Moines Special to Chicago News: Tie
sensation Of Central Iowa is tho divorce suit
fled in Atlantic, Cass county, by Mira Maria
Yetzer against Joseph c. Yetzer, claiming the
custody Of five children, aged from one to four
teen years. and 100000 alimony. The
couple were married December 6, 1866, in
Cass county. Plaintiff charges neglect, drunk
enness, abuse and adultery, asserting that in
October, 1880, IN Chicago, defendant commit
ted adultery with woman whose name is un-
known to plaintiff, and during the same month
in st. Louis, defendant lived in open and con-
ued adultery with the same woman. represent
ing her to be his wife; that in October, 1881,
defendant lived with the woman in Chicago for
week in adultery, taking her to St. Louis and
@ hving 1l there with her for 1.
with repetition Of the offense with various
women at various places Complaint is also
made that the defendant abused plaintiff by
refusing to accompany her to any and al
places Of amusement, and by refusing to go
with her upon the street at any time, and by
forsaking plaintiff and plaintiffs company for
the company Of lewd women, and by telling
plaintiff that he preferred the company of
such women to the plaintiffs company. The
defendant is . man of large means, being the
the owner Of several large farms, vast amount
OF personal property. = large stockholder in
the Cass county bank, the Atlantic packing
house, besides owning large hardware store
and several large business houses and lots in
in Atlantic, number Of tenement houees, and
many other interests and properties, and in al
making him worth at least the sum of $3.50, 900
over and above all indebtedness.