Telegram-herald., 1890-05-15
STOLE THOUSANDS.
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Nav Yozk. Nay lA-founs Bob
"AisAes. ProteEe and nominal nsphe~
Of JohR A Wallace. hzs taEned migrate
aat shs Old nan Is cheated oat Of
toe s2Eings u life time. ulore than
So. go, lost through confidence mis-
PLACED oy u4a Of over % ia = boy
q less lhaa IA BOY Nh0m hs
had come % look upon a. = son,
AL saon be ~as ~ make ais heir. TIE
boz IS ols % reach Of TIE oriosFs Of the
law for the time being. az least bat
Assistant Elitor Mcleod. sho was the
cCnn1enua- associate OF tho old
MAJ. a1d shO Is suspected
OF completely IL the robbery IS
safe In = cell AZ police hsadquAr-
tsrs, where Inspector Byrnes, with
the utmost EFFORT az secresy, has held
h n Tor nezsly 4 week. Mr. Wallace Is
ths veteran editor and proprietor Of
country over as an authority on
matters relating 20 trOtting horses.
lie also publishes the standard
works, 'Nallace's American Trot-
ting Register" and "Wallace's
Year Book" The young man is charged
With sn plying safety dspoSit vault OF
SIS. 600 and drawing over SIS. 900 on the
check book with which he was trusted.
he would have been heir 10 Si00 600
which The Old nan had saved. IL IS be-
lieved s54 600 viii cover the theft
Mr.. Wallace Is = hearty. whole-souled
klRd OF man. without child of his own,
and took as a prOtege several years ago
the son Of Pittsburgh Wallace, who IS
in the Government employ there. The
lads grandfather was a cousin OF Mr..
Wallace's father. The boz was 20 be
heir TO the thousands that Uncle
Wallace had laid away. Uncle Wallace
became very tsnd OF him and trusted
him implicitly. Robert was made as
slstant treasurer OF the publishing es-
tablishment, carried the key 20 Mr..
Wallaces safe, and had access 20 his
check book and all his srivate papers.
Last Wednesday morning Bob" did
not appear 81 the Office, nor did he ap-
pear during the day. AS 40 was ordi-
narily punctual enough Mr.. Wallace
thought he must be sick, and that after
noon went up 70 "Bob's boarding
house 70 SEQ about it The landlady
stated that young Wallace had left for
Boston that morning in a great hurry.
That night Mr.. Wallace began thinking
the matter over and looked at his bank
book. Thursday morning he visited
his box at the ssfe-deposit vaults.
The box, in which there had
bean over $500 worth of gilt
edged stocks and bonds. was empty.
The bank book also showed some very
startling figures, for besides the missing
stocks and bonds enough cash had been
drawn from Mr.. Wallace's account TO
make the total shortage no less than
So, 900 and perhaps nearer S54, Ooo
What led to the suspicion that Asso-
ciate Editor Macleod had a hand in
the lads thetts is one OF the things
that can not be told, but Mr.. Wallace
consulted Inspector Byrnes. and before
nightfall Mr.. Mcleod had become the
mysterious prisoner at police head
quarters
Macleod and young Bob" Wallace
were much together, and the supposi-
tion Is that the older man Influenced the
younger. Macleod is said TO drink
freely. Bob" however, is generally
given good character. The only the
ory 20 account for the theft is that it
went in gambling.