The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-03
HE STOLE RATES.
The Freight Clerk Thief
Is Found.
THE FOURTEEN TO GO BACK.
E. d. Jenny Thought He Would Get
Even Because He Was Dis
charged Last March.

The Southern Pacific Company has found
the rate-sheet thief and this morning the
fourteen freight clerks who were discharged
in body so that the right man would be
sure to go will all be back at their desks.
The fellow that took the stuff and sold a
little OF ii to paper that didn't know what
it was buying was not one of the fourteen
who suffered and they didn't produce him
either as the company said firmly they
would have TO do if they ever got their jobs
back
Railroad bawkshaws found him, got him
to make "clean breast" of 1t, aud when
he gave up the plumber he hadn't sold they
turned him loose again. 4 mass of Office
rate sheets containing thousands OF hgures
was queer thing to steal, but when T. ID.
Jenny was discharged from the freight
office last March, because he liked cocktails.
he wanted TO do something TO get even ana
thought he could worry the soulless corpo-
ration by getting away with some OF the
papers.
When the grass grew short he concluded
to TX up scheme to make some money out
Of his pluuder. and succeeded in selling
some oil the fruits of his crime TO morning
newspaper.
Now thirteen good aud true young men.
and one of the incest girls that ever liked
rates on nails and things, are jubilant over
masters office again. and the sensation and
hubbub at Fourth and Townsend streets
will quickly subside.
There was no arrest" said Vice-Presi-
dent Towne last night. The detectives
employed on the case located the stolen
property, and brought the man to the gen.
eral offices OF the company, where he made
full confession.
''He was allowed to leave after furnish
ing all the Information desired by the COM
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ecute him further. He is a man of family,
and 10 prosecute him would perhaps mean
his ruin. The company has recovered its
property, and will be content to let the
matter drop where it Is.
Mr.. TOwne refused to reveal the name of
the man who had betrayed the cnmpany's
trust and would state nothing that would
lead to his Identity, except that he was
former employe OF the company, Who had
been discharged some time ago.
e. ID. Jenny, however, was identified as
the man who took The papers and who
made the confession TO the railway officials.
Jenny was discharged from tho freight
0ffi"e of the Southern Pacific read on March
/ last. At the time of his last departure
from the office he was seen TO carry away a
bundle of papers, but though notice was
taken OF the circumstance at the time, it
was thought that the buldle was composed
Of personal effects merely rolled up in some
useless papers. Later. when 1t became
known that certain papers were taken from
the Office, the circumstance was recalled and
this led TO his detection.
The discharged empl0ye was known to
be without means OF supporting his family,
and he was Swallowed for some time before
the arrest was made. He spent money
freely and apparently had no way OF OBJ
tanning the money. The detectives of the
company came at once TO the conclusion
that the money came from the sale of the
stolen papers.
On visiting his rooms they found the.
papers. The papers taken were fifty in
number, making tremendous mass OF tab
ulated figures, and were simply the printed
SHEETS of freight tariff rates as they were
last published. They would have been USE
less TO any other person than one employed
on the work in the tariff schedule room OF
the freight department.
This man, however, was fer sighted
enough to keep the last Sheet upon which
he had been working, which was part of
an experimental schedule of rates for
freight which will probably never go into
effect. With this sheet in his possession,
and being familiar with the methods of the
work, he was able with great deal of
labor TO figure out an alleged new tariff
To have figured out all the rates covered by
the papers which he took would have re-
quired six months labor AS it was. he
must have worked pretty steadily Oh the
portion which he sold.
The negotiations for the sale OF the papers
were conducted by middlemen, under tcti-
tious names, and every precaution taken to
keep the matter frem getting out.
The making Of the tariff schedules of the
freight department of the Southern Pacific
is an endless job, on which some tw euty
people are constantly employed. The work
which has been interrupted and which will
have to be entirely done over has been the
work of the force of twenty employees for