The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-29
Bondsmen Report On
Nash's Shortcomings.
ARREST MAY FOLLOW
He viii Be Asked to Resign
Town Offices.

Lancaster, March 2S.-The bondsmeu
for Postmaster Horace NJ. Nash have
issued a statement regarding his Short
age, The statement is evidently writ
ten with the purpose of giving the exc
act facts. 1t shows the shortage in the
unfortunate postmasters accounts to
have been deliberate appropriation Of
property that did not belong to the
postmaster.
1t says that no one believes the
shortage of $1699.12 has been taken
from the office since Jan. l. 1899, as
Dr. Mash stoutly affirms, and points to
the conclusion that the deficit was
made gradually through a long term Of
years and afterward deliberately COM
cealed.
The document includes a resume of
the quarterly statements Of amount of
stock on hand made by Postmaster
Nash from the quarter ending March
81, 1899, when the stock on hand was
s2l9,14 to Dec. 81, 1898, when the stock
reported on hand was $2475 81, and the
stock found by the inspector two
months late, $S52.15.
Or. Nash's method is described in this
language:
Now, the department has some post.
masters in its great army who get
their balances in another way (tha
right way has been described) just as
easy. They send in money to the de-
partment as large O. sum as they can
spare, add their commissions and
charge as property on hand enough to
square the account.
Several cases are cited in which DR..
Nash paid his bills in postage stamps,
A Clinton business man is represented
as saying that a man from this town
offered him stamped envelopes, saying
he had just received a large numbef
from Postmaster Nash in payment OF
bill.
An incident that has not before
reached the public is that Postmaster
Nash has been very near arrest at this
suggestion of his bondsmen.
on Tuesday, March q the inspector
found s98.75 on hand. DR.. Nash told
w. A. Kilbourne that the inspector had
taken this amount with him. The
bondsmen check for $169912 to make
good the shortage had just been sent,
1t then transpired that the $9S15 had
not been given to the inspector.
Il took it down to my house." DR.
was told the money must be refunded
At o'clock the same evening he Of
fered a refundment in the shape Of
$3.50 worth of stamps in an envelope.
This was at his house. His wife, at
his request produced a box. From the
box he took $47.25, leaving a balance
Of $5150. He was informed that he
must bring in the amount before
o'clock Saturday morning or an Officer
would bring him in. 1t brought the
money in the nick of time.
The report estimates the Doctors in
come since 1889 at $1,000 annually. He
was in debt when he was appointed.
He has paid off one debt Of $500. But
other debts press and harass him.
Doubtless a part of the missing funds
have gone to pay these debts. The re-
port expresses sympathy for DIR. Nash's
wife.
Tn conclusion this interesting docu-
ment says: His bondsmen only COM
plain that the department did not send
an inspector six years ago, when his
report of property on hand ran up to
STATS, instead of waiting until it ran
up to $2475. They would gladly have
paid the loss in any single quarter OF
two quarters rather than ruin him.