The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-04
LOIlMANN Is A DEFAULTER.
mrs ACCOUNTS FOUND AMOUR sso,-
600 SHORT LAST NOM


me Excise commissioners More thnn Ever
Convinced OF their Missing Cashiers
Honesty Amer tie SAFE was Opened Yes
ter,isy Afternoon, and Astoni.b.a a, IN.
syb.c,,.,, u.v.Io,,o,. n, ,,. ru..,.
turns out that the accounts OF Cashier w.
~ hohmahn oil the Excise Department in
bIookISh' VINO mas oeen missing since Jan.
q are crookeu anu 'hat no Is apparently do
lau'er 10 Ihe extent OF nearly S2OOOO.
on SATURDAY, before leaving the o1ice he
,l"ue ms nnal ueposit OF sZ.OOo In the bank to
'he creuiI ol inc Guy ana put 500 more In
notes 'ogether WIN cheeks Tor $500. In
, w.. ea,o WIN MS DOCKS ana papers.
Mnen 'no now n,, ENclSe com missioners took
ena'se, On tnursuay' Oasnier Lonmann' IL
s T"s 'ounu , was nlsslnE' anu inc saie locked.
no combination was unknown TO any other
~ 'llo o,''oe' anu on fIiuay tne WORK OF
opo',.E !. was poRun oy oaie MAKER hendrlck-
son ~ was was not cohe,uueu until YESTERDAY after
TI ine io[ tne last deposited
anu the checks and $500 In money were found
tucked away in the inner drawer.
The cash book and stub book and other
in the main com partment 1t was thought thar
some note might have boon left behind By Mr..
Lohmann which might throw some light on his
disappearance but none was found. The fact
ha IA M ngt Han bod : al. -
,na' no nau Iusl ueposneu Szooo on the eve Oh
his disappearanco and left tho money and
that his occourts ,nriJ ~ $50 ~ ~ IL, ,
. .a hls accounts wou'u De iound all right ana
himself into insanity over the loss Of his piaes
and had rrobohIv o,,,, ,,,t,ad ,,tsiS ' '''~~
The police investigation had shown that Mr..
Lohmann started for PHILADELPHIA on SUNDAY.
and participated on the following day in a.
meeting OF German singing society OF which
win Irlehu. ne sald ne was going over To
baltimore. and intended continuing his Jour-
90 lar as can be ascertained this Ia the last
has been discoysysd IN n",,mora race 81 p n
,nors and 40 II, D"'slno NJ oi hen-
city. Ex.Commissioners schlIemann md
cahill Of tho Excise Department were
ing Of the safe that Mr.. LOhmann was an hon.
G0uld only oe accounted ior on the theory OF
The Investigation OF the accounts, how
eyer; which w W;,s at once begun by Special
countsntss Daniel o'RSllly.,, N. II, Davis.
ana w y, am, PAYS w OF the Board Of Audit
mig night placed tho mater IN an entirely differ
e eht ehi, Mr. honnann hsd been the cashier
eight years. but the ,examina OF the ac-
counts eod,S was Sonnnea 10 tne iast year All the
satslaetorlly passed under the supervision
OF the Board oil Audit There are over 1000
ncenses In brooklyn, ana owing to the com
plicatsd manner OF Keeping tho accounts under
the proyisiions OF the model Brooklyn c"arter.
work OF the special accountants was necessn-
riIy slow. Il was found that tho accounts were
Az apparently straight up TO the close OF lS03,
the license DooR, STUB DOCK. ana receipts OF
tne Clty Ireasurer Tor the amounts turned In.
al corresponding;
IT otartlnR ont however on an investigation
OF the accounts up till Jan; "a. In the present
year, irregularities were discovered. and they
continued until the day before Lohmann's dee
phrture., Special Accountant Brown last night
In 1898 $500 nrst-class ltcen amounting