Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-20
DESHLER LEAVES TOWN.
A Large Shortage in His Post
 office Accounts.
HE WAS A vERiTABLE JONAH.

Misfortune Overlook alI the New Brun,-
 wick Officials " U, Whom He was Con
 nected-Postmaster Price Unwilling to
 Talk About His Deputy's Grim.
 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 20.-Ei- wird Deshler, deputy postmaseer, had fed tue city, leaving large shortage in his ac- cc unts. Pos; s;niaster Price could not be found at the office, but reporter had all interview with him at his store on Burnet street. Mr. Price admitted that Dcshler had suddenly disappeared on Saturday, but claimed that the rules Of the postoffice department pre- vented him from divulging the nature and extent of the trouble that caused his deputy to go. Dcshler was in charge of the money order department through which thousands oi dollars pass every week. He also kept the books of the entire cash department, and Vas apparently under no safe bonds.
 Deshier's flight was discovered on Satur- day The postmaster thought he had sue ctlnbed to drink, as he was a hard Grnker but on visiting tEe deputy's home he found that he had left for parts unknown in con- siderable haste on tue previous night Desh- Ter was in possession of the safe combination at tho office, in which many valuable papers were stored. Hoping !h, deputy would re- turn Monday, the accounts in the money order department were kept loosely until then, when the safe was forced open. What was revealed in the examination of the safe the postmaster has refused to divulge claim ing that he Was bound first to inform the in- spector, to whom he had already telegraphed about Deshlei's flight and probable detalca- tion.
 ere there not number of department letters missing!" the postmaster was asked, such rumor having been made public
 Mir. Price hesitated before answering, and then said: That is the very thing I would like to know"
 Have you found shortages"
 Il cannot answer that question before the inspector arrives
 Was Deshler not defaulter during your administration!'
 'l cannot answer"
 It is believed that Desh:er's alleged defalca tiou will range all the way from sl.Oo0 to So,ooo He has had a peculiar career in New Brunswick Hc was bookkeeper for County Coliector Hartmoor, who SC! we'd a term in state prison for embezzlement Directly thereafter he served in the same capacity for collector Letson, who was found guilty of embedding the county'S funds and was sentenced to state prison He was bookkeeper for Collecto. Levi D. Jerrard who stole SS9,O0o, skipped to Canada, and was returned by requistion in 1883, and sen fenced to state prison for ten years. It was Desh h'ers evidence that convicted Jerrard. and It Is believed by some to this day that he committed the forgeries through which ,Jer rard was extradited. He has been a Jonah to every offic al with whom he has been con nected. Many of his transgressions have been covered up for tee sake of his family who hold high position in the social scale in New Brunswick
 Deshler Is 50 years old. He has wife and q large family oI ch 4dren. It is believed that he has missing money in his possession. The amount will be determined upon the ar rival of the government Inspector