Arizona republican., 1902-05-14
ARREST OF CHAS. REIELING
His Shortage With the Wakelin Gro
 cer Gonpa y 81,953.A0.

l'haIles !, jb.;r~ t.l. .,-f4uitllz c.i- lactor Of the Walelia Grocer company. was arrested q Hteie after o'clock lasr night on warrant sworn out of Justice Gray's court by W. W. Ed wards. bookke Per fer the company. u Was served on i;cibling at lis home by Constable Kyle It was not the wish ot the company to prosecute Ecibii3g but t3 give iim an opportunity t0 m;tka good the shortlEe which he thought the night before W;:+ iu the ueighborhoCd of $leD0. pos sihly not mor- than $S00. On Monday night Mrs. Reib,ins. in whose name the residence in Brill addition stood. agreed t@ transfer it to the Wakeiin Grocer company. She did so and also gave the company a cha-tei mortgage on I horSc, wagon ana ether personal prop Crty. The deed and mortgage were recorded yesterday.
 The work of investigating Eeibiing's accounts went Oil yesterday. It was quite plain ill the morning that the shortage would considerably exceed Reibling's estimate of it fer Mr Ed wards found at Mesa and Tempe on Monday deficits that made up a con siderable part of $1o0G. The investiga- ticn has not been concluded, but Nr. Edwards has proceeded far enough with it to show that there is a shortage of at least $l.953.40. It was upon this slowing that the warrant for his arrest was sworn out.
 Eeiblinss method was peculiarly coarse and he could not have hoped to escape detection very long. Keibling had nothing to do With the retail trade of the company. His business was To take orders from grocers and general mer- chants in Phoenix. Tempe and Mesa, and make collections from them Many Of the smaller merchants did net let their bills run over night. The bills of all the others were supposed to be collectible on the first day of the following month. Reiblings plan in general was to held out all or part of the collections and when the state ments for the next month were given him, he either made out new statements on blanks ne had somehow procured from the office, or else he altered the balances. if there were any, to make them what his customers knew the real balances tC be. These alterations were made by using an erGsing fluid on the bcCkkeepers figures and then writing his own figures in. In some cases this work was so badly done that the bOokkeeper's figures are still dimly wis ible.
 As a matter of curiosity to ascertain when this crookedness began the book keeper has gone ever his accounts for several months It appears that he began to go wrong as long ago as last October, but it is evident that al that time he was not trying to beat the 1 company. He was merely borrowing money from his employers without their knowledge. For instance he would collect a bill and turn in a part of the amount. \ few days later. be- fore the first of Ihe following month ! he would turn in the rest, saying that l ne had just collected it. It does not appear that he had entered upon q sys- l tenn Of even this kind of borrowing" ." l for there was d hiatus in which every
 thing was straight.
 ] The shortage began to be made late i in February At that time he began holding out large sums. There is | merchant by the name of Espinosa in
 the southern part of the city whose bills amount to about 5000 monthly. In February S200 of this account was held
 out. more in March and still more in April. when il appeared that Espinosa