Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-15
IGGRATITUDE.
A YOUNG MAN WHO COULD NOT STAND
SUDDEN PROSPERITY.
Edwa ard Williams Shows His Apprecia-
ton of His Employers Kindness
by Stealing His Money.

Two weeks ago to-day boy, apparently
eighteen or nineteen years of age, with his
clothes in tatters, stepped into j. T Barry's
printing Office in this city and asked for
work. He said his name was Ed. Will
Jams and that he had just arrived from the
East. New York was his native State.
He explained to Mr.. Barry that he under
stood the pressman's trade pretty thor
oughly ard solicited employment, stating
at the same time that he was willing 10
work for almost nothing.
Mr.. Barry happened to be in need of
boy at that time, and the newcomer, by
his straightforward manner and mild way,
fayorably impressed him. The result was
that Williams was put to work iNmedi.
ately after having had a conference with
Mr.. Barry in which the latter advised him
to be always true to his employer, and gave
him the assurance that his position would
be permanent so long as he attended to his
business properly.
A GOOD BEGINNING.
Williams went TO work next morning
and proved to be so handy person around
presses that Mr.. Barry took great liking
to him and concluded that be had secured
an excellent assistant. On the same day
he engaged board and lodging at the Pacific
Hotel for one month for his new erploye
and on Saturday he took him TO clothing
store and fitted him out with q $40 suit of
clothes. He also gave him couple of dol
lars for spending money.
Williams worked with will during the
Int Ii 10 nth of his ctar
could not stand the prosperity so suddenly
acquired.
| On Monday of the next week he was told
| to deliver some work that had been fin
| ished, and among the places to which he
was directed was the Chinese store of Tong
Sung. He took a lot of tags there, and
| seeing a memorandum bill on the table be-
| fore he left the printing Office, he snstched
| it up and after delivering the goods TO the
Chinaman, presented the bill. The amount
was 81 so and the Chinese merchant hesi-
tated about paying it, remarking that Mr..
Barry never wanted his money so soon.
Williams knocked so cents off the bill and
| then explained that his employer did not
have some with which to get supper. The
Chinaman paid the bill
REWARD FOR KINDNESS.
This was the last heard OF Williams uH-
til yesterday. He decamped after receiving
| the money, and the till in the Office was
also found to have been tempered with to
the extent of Sc or 81 in silver and postage
| stamps. The safe had apparently been
worked upon, but had not been opened.
This work was done while Mr.. Barry was
| in San Francisco, and on hearing of the
treachery on his return, his surprise knew
no bounds. He had really gone so far as
| to trust the boy, and believed he was per-
fectly honest Laboring under this impress
sion he set him on his feet by giving him
| position and buying him clothing.
The police were notified, and from par
| ties here it was learned that the boy had
gone to Oakland. A dispatch was sent
there and the Chief OF Police wired back
that he had arrested Williams and would
hold him.
Mr. Barry swore to a complaint yester-
day, charging the boy with forgery in
signing his (Barry's) name in receipting a
bill.
Another charge, that of burglary, will
| probably be sworn to when the lad arrives
here.