The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
THROUGH A DETECTIVES EYES.
An Assertion Tint There Are Many More
Dishonest People than Meet Exposure.

An investigation into the characters Of
good many of the well-dressed, elegant
men who float about town at night would
bring some startling facts to light" said
Detective Wilkinson yesterday. Recently
number of cases have been exposed of
men who were supposed to have large for
tunes, and who turned out to be everyday
thieves. The instances of two clerks who
have been arrested within fortnight show
which way the wind blows. One of these
precocious youngsters--he is only "a years
old-had dog cart, twelve or fourteen
suits OF clothes, WINS regular attendant of
the theatres and opera, dined at Delmonico's
four nights out of six, and had the reputa-
ton of being q bowling swell of the 1876 900
year type. Half his friends knew that he
was in fancy goods house in the dry goods
district, and they should have known that
his salary could not have been more than
$4,000 year, yet he spent three or foui
times that sum, and apparently nobody sus.
pected him of wrong until exposure came.
His was just such case as that of the Sixth
avenue dry goods clerk who made great
splurge on about So, 900 year, and another
instance is that of youngster who was ex.
posed for stealing woman's diamonds
week or two ago. He was good-looking
young chap with no end of clothes and a
phenomenal amount of assurance. The
wonder is not that so many of these men are
exposed, but that so few are.
Any man who goes about at all can call
to mind acquaintance who spend good
deal more than their incomes, and yet no
one suspects anything wrong Still that
something is wrong goes without saying I'M
less there is positive proof that they have
private sources of income, and yet no one
thinks for moment of suspecting them of
dishonesty. / know of man who is con-
nected with Wall street house in a conf
DENTAL capacity. His salary is $4,000 q
year. believe very many of the better
paid Wall street clerks do on the sly take a
flyer now and then, but the principals of
the firms do not know of this, and the rule
on the street is that employees must not
speculate. The clerk have in mind has
DttH lifiuB nv tho Ndbo VI PlA,OUU q y0Q1
ever since 1878. The rent of his house
alone is 81, 200 1t may be that he makes
surplus income by judicious speculation,
but the chances are heavily against him,
because if he could make as much by specu-
lation as he spends, he would soon grow
ambitious and cut loose of the routine and
hard work of his duties, but he doesn't He
gets up at 8 o'clock every morning, and
works rs hard as any man in the Office.
When the fact comes out that he is do
faulter or an embezzler, everybody will be
Immensely surprised"
Every instance is not exposed, though
That's exactly it. A great many cases
are never heard of by the public, for bust.
ness men realize that it hurts their financial
standing to have exposure of dishonesty OF
carelessness on the part of their employees.
The number of ceses that are hushed up
and smoothed over far exceed those that
we hear Of, but the suspicious swells who
float about town increase and multiply
svssy day."