The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-25
ROBBED HER
EMPLOYER
A Young Waitress
Takes $50 in
Cash.
NEW ENGLAND
BAKERY LOSER
Caught by Marked Coin and Con
fession Follows With Promise
OF Restitution.

Through the medium OF a marked
| coin a local proprietor OF a bakery ana
ice cream parlor discovered yesterday
morning who has been reducing his
revenues for the past six weeks. The
marked coin was watched from the
| time it was laid on counter, until it
was covertly thrust under a pair of
scales on the candy counter and finally
slipped into the purse of a young Ha
| waiian- Chinese girl who acts as wait
ress in the establishment. The girl
| was confronted with the evidences of
her guilt, and the purse gave up the
tell-tale piece of money. A confession
was wrung from her, from which it de-
veloped that not only had she taken
the fifty cents. but SIN the six weeks
time she had beef Employed she had
taken altogether $3.50 belonging to the
| proprietor Fearing that she would be
| arrested, she promised to pay $50 today,
| $50 tomorrow and the balance some
time during next week. On her prom
Use to do this no warrant was obtained
for her arrest.
For several weeks Mr.. Lutted of the
New England Bakery has been losing
heavily from his daily receipts Every
night when the cash was counted and
the items on the cash register added
up, there was wide discrepancy in
the totals. Suspicion fell on the young
girl, but during this time, even with
the closest watching, there was moth
ing done by her. or rather seen done.
that would incriminate her. On some
days the amount missing would be in
the neighborhood of $40 or SIS The
next day it would be double. Manager
Lutted scratched his head and wonder
ed. In the meantime the young girl
was enjoying life on 81 a week salary,
which was her compensation, at dir
~ pace. On her afternoons off duty
from the store she was generally seen
handling the reins behind a spirited
livery horse and the buggy in which
she sat was the best to be had She
invited her friends and was quite a
familiar figure on Waikiki road and on
the downtown streets. During this
time she purchased in the neighbor-
hood of six or seven fine dresses, to-
gether with shoes and hats. When not
working evenings, at the store she was
a the Orpheum, and always bought the
tickets.
On Wednesday Mr.. Lutted marked a
quarter and laid it near the candy regis |
ter. visit shortly after to the place |
disclosed the fact that the quarter was |
missing. In his haste to pin the truth Mr.. |
Lutted did not give the girl time enough |
to get it into her purse. He found it !
under the cash register, where it had
been slipped, pending the time when it .
could be safely taken out Yesterday aft
ernoon the young lady cashier sold a
box of candy and received 5O-cent piece
in payment. She carefully marked the
silver coin and laid it on the rear coun-
ter. 1t remained there for some time
Finally it disappeared and it was not
to be found in the register TILL While
the girl was in the lunch room. the cash
Ter found &the money under the scales
She allow sd it to remain there Finally,
10 give the young girl a cndnCe 10 put
it in her purse or pocket, the cashier
went up stairs. On her return the coin
was gone from its place of concealment.
The cashier told the bakef of the coins
describing the marks she sIade upon it.
While allsthree were og$her in the
salesroomS the cashier suddenly inquired
where tims half dollar was which she had
laid on tsle counter. The waitress spoke
up quickly:
"Oh. I haven't taken it! had Go cents
when I came here"
She opened her purse at the suggestion
of the baker, and the latter picked out
a 5O-cent piece and examined it. The
marks as described by the cashier were
there. Mr.. Lutted was informed. and IN
der his questioning the girl broke down
and confessed that she had taken about
$3.50. She begged that she be not ar
rested, and upon promising to pay back
n three equal installments, was allowed
n n To he J