The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-01
HIS EMPLOYERS CASH
Coreoran Invested 1t in Gam
bling and Travelling.
A CLERKS SUDDEN DOWNFALL.
TO Find Himself $500 Poorer
Louis Peitz Gamer.

The confidence he placed in his conf
Dental clerk, J. III. Corcoran, has cost
Leander Miller. the truckman, about $3.50,
or, deducting the loss which will have 10
he borne By the banks, something over
$50.
Corcoran IS young man about ) feet 10
inches high, with sandy complexion, and
IS about y years old. During Mr.. Millcr's
absence at Olympia at the senatorial cleo
ton Corcoran seems TO have engaged in
gambling and TO have used three checks
belonging TO his employer i'm paying debts
he incurred at the game. The checks we're
drawn for Si7.55 On the Boston National
bank by ]. III. Calvert & to. for SI2i. % on
Dexter Horton Il Co.. by Fischer & Me-
Donald, and for $55.SS on the Merchants
National bank by T. c. Miles Co, making
total of $685..
On January 10 Corcoran Endorsed these
checks, "Leander Miller. per ]. Fl. Cor
coTan, and gave them TO Louis Peltz. the
gambler. Mr.. Miller says he thinks PeItz
drew Corcoran into game, got him TO in
dorse the checks and hand them over 70
hlm. He says, however. that Ieltz told
him that torcoran asked him If he
could not cash the checks, as Mr. Miller
was away and he needed the money to pay
some freight bills in the morning. PETIT
Pantheon saloon and had drink and
he cashed the checks there
The following morning Corcoran tried to
borrow $3.50 from the Gordon Hardware
Company. in whose building Mr. Miller
has his office, to pay the freight bills, but
not being able To secure so large an amount
was satisfied with slg.75. He then went
out TO collect some bills Mr. Miller had
gwen him, amounting 10 something over
$3.50. He collected about that amount and
then returned to the office and wrote the
following farewell letter TO Mr. Miller.
leaving II on the desk:
Mr.. L. Miller--DeGr Friend: Owing TO trouble
have had it 10 necessary for me TO leave ct
once. There Is a woman in the racket.
! have drawn s2249j. including the total
amount OF my Indebtedness 20 you. enclose
you an order On my father for the amount
which VIII De paid on presentation, as viii
write BIN by this mail full particulars.
thanking you Tor your Kindness to me. wish,
lug rou every success possible aud greatly re-
greiting what mas happened, ! remain your
7. 81 owe few small bills in town. should
anyone ask you for them. tell them they will
get their money, as | intend sending il TO them.
Corcoran then took the money he had
collected and went to the Northern Pacific
depot with George Foy, young man who
ling and who formerly drove q delivery
wagon for III. IL X. Gottstein. but has
done no work for three months. The
couple bongbt tickets to Puyallup and got
on the train for that town, but probably
went further. Nothing has since been
seen of him.
Mr.. Miller has recovered part of his loss
from the banks. He pointed out that Cor
coran was not authorized to endorse in his
name, George u. Adair being the only
person who mas that authority. He there
fore called upon them to pay the checks
again and get the money from Peltz if they
could. The Boston National bank and
Dexter Horton & Co. paid the money. but
the Merchants National bank refused and
Mr.. Miller intends TO bring suit to recover
the amount. When the banks called upon
Peltz to refund the money they were blunt
~ told to go 10 he'll Mr.. Miller has writ
ten to Corcoran's father III California, stat
ing the facts and asking whether he will
do anything toward making good the loss.