The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-25

acknowledgement of the shortage there are
many who refuse TO believe that young
Everybody has good word for him and
Is at a loss to account for any cause that
could have induced him to misappropriate
the money of the Fireman's Fund Com
pany.
If Cashier Spaulding spent the money
he is alleged to have stolen before he
took his flight he mas squandered 1t in
San Francisco for there is not the least
indication that he was spending more
than his income in this city. Neither
was he absent from his home for any
periods that might cause suspicion His
wife declares her entire ignorance of any
thing connected with her husband s
Wrong-doing and no one doubts her story.
In Spaulding's preparation for flight he
did not take his wife or his father into
ms confidence and both are equally at a
loss to account for his disappearance.
There Is general belief that Spaulding
was induced to speculate in a gold brick
and that he may have taken the money
expecting TO double il and replace it in
the company's treasury. In no other man
Spaulding was never seen at the race
track and was never known to wager a
dollar
Last January DR.. George C. Pardee, in
ne had heard 1T whispered several times
that well-known man had been a victim
or the gold brick fraud TO the extent of
s9Voo me doctor had not learned any of
be accepted as fact. Tonight DR.. Par
dee was asked if he had heard any more
of the incident, and he said that he had
heard 1t mentioned since, but only in
directly. The story was common talk
among the commuters on the ferry boats
that II was one of their number, and
Spaulding was a commuter at that time,
returning from the insurance office every
evening to his home Webster street.
Spauidlng was young man of unusual
talent and progressive methods. He en-
cd he of Mo, ..,fr
many years ago, and was advanced over
the heads of many other clerks because
of his efficiency. He has never given any
one cause to suspect that he was leading
the life which he must have been doing
to squander the money that is reported as
missing.
Mrs. E. F. spaulding is with her sister
in-law, Mrs. n. w. Spaulding, at the
latter's home on Eighteenth street For
over a week she has been expecting the
return of her husband but has heard
nothing of him since he left Oakland on
May 6.
Il am quite at loss to account for Mr..
Spaulding's absence" said the cashier s
wife wife TO, today IL, He left home two weeks
was going to Portland on business for the
company. He was to have returned in a
few days and then we were both to have
gone off on a vacation; He, did not re
turn and / have heard nothing of him
since. | will never believe he is guilty of
any wrongdoing. There must be some
must have happened, or he would have
returned over a week ago. l do not know
where he is, but l feel sure that every
thing will soon be cleared up
Mrs. Spaulding is quite sick, and her
two little children are also ailing and
constantly calling for papa
The aged parents of the missing cashier
are heartbroken over their sons down
fall They will not be consoled by friends,
who have extended sympathy and hopes,
and they fear for the worst. The father,
N. w. Spaulding, fears that his son has
committed suicide.
1.-TWO weeks ago last Saturday my son
made an engagement with me by tele-
phone for luncheon in San Francisco
said Mr.. Spaulding. When l called at
the office he had changed his mind. He
told me that it was impossible for him
to get away for lunch just then, because
he was working on his books at the time,
vacation in a few days he wished to have
easier for Mr., Gardner to take up the
work where he left off.
ION this occasion Ed betrayed no rest
/ excused him and / thought no more
about it. An hour later he left the Of
fee and he has not been seen since.
'.On the following Wednesday my
daughter-in- law called on me very much
alarmed and informed me that her hus-
band had gone to Portland, Or, on the
previous Saturday, but had not written
since his departure. She was in great