Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-05-21

Harry Rogers went home bewildered.
He had for years been one of Mays
employees without knowing II, and now
he found in her champion and firm
believer in his innocence.
When he visited the bank the next
morning and, declaring his innocence
of the suspicious against him. declined
to make good the deficit, except on the
judgment Of court, and to prevent his
bondsmen from paying it. Mr.. Iveson
was shocked and angry, and finally told
Rogers that he would have to institute
criminal proceedings against him un-
less the loss was made good.
''Then l am ready to be taken into
custody" was his reply. 1.-The sooner
we begin to sift this mystery. the soon
er we will get to the bottom of it."
1t was one of the greatest of Dayton
sensations when the arrest of Harry
Rogers was made public and the story
told in the papers with half-a-dozen diff
ferent versions.
The bank employed detective tose
cure corroborative evidence of the
young cashiers guilt, and although but
little could be found. his prospects
were dark indeed, for he found it i'm
possible to throw any reasonable light
on the mysterious disappearance of the
two missing packages Of money.
May concluded to employ detective
also, without letting any one know
what she was doing. An officer was
summoned from q neighboring city, and
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get his Instructions.
In the course of an hours conversa-
ton May gave him history of the af-
fair, and how she came to learn of the
loss of the money and the suspicious
entertained against the cashier.
The detective, of course, soon dis
covered that both the bookkeeper and
cashier were in love with the young
lady who had called his services into
requisition.
80 it was the bookkeeper that told
you the secret in the first placer" en-
quired the detective.
Yes"
"And what was the motivep"
81 haven't the remotest idea"
The detective accidently struck his
foot against the work-basket, and over
turned it. With an apology for his
awkwardness he began to replace the
contents.
"Oh, yes, Mr. Officer" exclaimed
| May, ''there is u letter tnat Mr.. Brant
dropped on the night he told me of the
first robbery, and | had forgotten to re-
turn it to him.
'.Let me see it, said the detective.
He opened the letter and exclaimed:
Whats thisp Why, here are the
identical five one hundred pound notes
stolen on the first occasion! And Mr..
Bookkeeper dropped them. He want
ed to drive his rival, the cashier, out of
the field, and then marry Miss May
Saunders. You needn't blush, nor you
needn't deny it. Say nothing for the
present"
The unknown detective called at the
bank the next day and had conversa-
ton with Mr.. Iveson, and Bookkeeper
Brant was called into the conference.
why did you never make enquiry
for the five hundred pounds you drop
ped at the residence of Miss Saunders
the evening after that sum mysterious
ly disappeared from Cashier Rogers's
drawer?" enquired the detective.
Brant was thunderstruck.
'Tell lis aboat it," demanded Mr..
Iveson. -'s
Brant made Il full confession, the
substance of which was that he ab-
stracted the money while Rogers's at
tention was distracted, and did it for
the sole purpose of running the cashier
and winning Miss Saunders. He had
intended to replace the money, and
would do SO now, if permitted to leave
Dayton and never return.
To this Mr.. Iveson and the other
members of the firm consented, and
that night John Brant disappeared, and
has never been heard of in DAYTON
since.
simultaneously with the detectives
revelation and Brant's confession, the
proceedings against Harry Rogers were
discontinued, and he was not only re-
stored to his place in the bank, but
promised partnership interest.
May Saunders. that used to be, is
Mrs. Harry Rogers now, and the name
OF the banking-house is Iveson & Rog-
ers. May insists that l am mistaken
when l tell her that she once said she
would live and die an old maid before
she would marry Harry Rogers. Well,
l will not argue the point with her.