Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-07
EmRExxLER.
A Trusted Employe Collects About
 $500 and Skips but is Caught Finally

Trusted EmplOY0 Collects About $500 and SkIps but Is Caught Finally Formerly of Bridgeport.
 Patrick H. O,Keefe was arrested by Detec- tive Reilly in Ansonia yesterday on the charge of embedding $500 from Henry R. Loomis, fruit dealer at 1s4 State street. He was brought to this city and locked up.
 O.Keefe was up to short time ago col- leetor for Captain Loomis, going about with a horse and carriage to make his collections. His employer began to suspect that he was not turning in all the money he collected. He investigated and found that merchants had receipts for payments that o'Keefe had never accounted for.
 When O,Keefe found that his employer was on his track he skipped, taking woman with him. O'Keefe admits that he is guilty, but says that he did not take over $200 or $500. Ills says he lost in betting on cleo tion. He was formerly in the saloon busi- ness in Bridgeport but was compelled to leave on account of case in which a woman was principal, and it is thought that the pres- ent case is owing to g similar cause. O'Keefe is about twenty-eight years old and unmar- ried.
 one Or TWO Matters SeG Right.
 Dec. 6, 1888. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Permit me in behalf of others, as we'll as in my own behalf, to correct few errors that have inadvertently crept into two arti- cles which have appeared recently in your usually reliable paper.
 When I consider the innumerable little pieces of type metal which are to be picked up individually, and the fact that each arti- cle has to pass through the hands of writer, compositor. editor and proof-reader, and that each of these are liable to be pressed with cares and duties, and so write or read or ex- anime or correct hastily, my greatest marvel is that we have so few mistakes in our news papers, and on the whole so correct repre- sentation of the thought designed to be ex- pressed.
 Therefore it is with no spirit of fault finding or carping criticism that write to- day, and though you may not fully agree with me as to the importance of making corr rections, trust you will kindly publish this communications:
 In tho JOURNAL AND COURIER of to-day find that you have given large space to a somewhat extended report of the annual meeting of the Home for the FriendIess, and for this heartily thank you, since thereby LHo puSllc WILL D6 aDle to ODbaln some IQr- ther knowledge of the work done by the Home.
 The erroneous paragraph is that which commences "the monthly meeting," etc. After the words 'were unable to be present. should have been these: "Mrs. L. L. Camp, one of the managers, was called to serve as president pro. tenn, and Mrs Justus s. .Hotch- kiss as secretary. As one of the nominating committee Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford reported the list of officers and managers which were then elected"
 In the JOURNAL AND COURIER of yesterday December 5 there was kindly notice of the services held in the Church of the Messiah, but the text of my sermon was erroneously given, probably because I did not announce | it clearly. The text was really James 1, 27, using only portion of the verse as it appears in the new version: "Pure religion and unde- filed before our God and father"
 The name of the lady who assisted in the services and also made an excellent address was also given enormously. It should have been Rev. Lotta D. Crosley.
 This lady Is the wife of Rev. William J. Crosley, now pastor of the Universalist church in Danbury, Conn. She was regularly ordained to the ministry of the Universalist church in 1879 and is at present preaching at Long Ridge, Conn, every Sunday. She is a native of Ohio and has been pastor of church. es in Ohio and in Indiana The interesting sketch of her life which appears in Mrs. Han son's book "Our Woman Workers" closes with the words "Mrs. CTosley is 8 woman of superior mental gifts, possesses 8 fine voice and unaffected manner and is a useful and effective preacher" hope she will be heard in New Haven again. Yours truly,
 PHEBE A. HANAFoRD,
 5SQ Howard Avauua