Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-15
PLAYED TIE RACES.
Deficiency in Accounts Of Bookkeeper
at Boston.

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{ in by the agents of the gamblers who
make Il handbook in this city on the
/ running horses.
! George L. Hodgdon s. years old. who
hvrd with his young wife and 3-year-
Ola daughter at Maxwell read, Il fash
ionaple section of Winchester. is now a
| prisoner at the Tombs He was IN
able to secure bail in $4,000. last even
ing. neither had he secured counsel
! a peculiar feature of his case is that
lie confessed and admitted ii an ana
SAD: 1t is all gone. l haven't got !
cent left
Another unusual feature is that he
. Z united that he stole a'!nut s15 Goa
or half the arount IL is ,flrrnd with
taking. during TIE past week and in
vested It III stocks, ANA by pIlnginr on
| me horse races in tile hope OF ret,icy-
ing his lost for.unc ANA paying back
the money he had already stolen from
his trusting employers.
iiouSGOn went to work rs q boy ~
years ago, in the Office of Charles r.
falrbanks, treasurer of the Bigelow
carpet Co. and the Clinton Wire Cloth
90. He worked his way up the I,dd,.
until he becarc trusted clerk. head
bookkeeper and confidential man I'M
der the eye of Treasurer F,irh,n;,s
lew years ago he married one OF tha
peilt9 Oh lncheSter. daughter of Il
hl&nly respected family. and settled
down to enjoy life. His home life wa,
happy. He had no bad habits FOR evil
companions, ana has been regarded as
Il model young man. He had no lavish
tastes, was modest in dress and lived
we'll within his means.
treasurer Fairbanks was often
Obliged to leave the city and the bust
ne.s of his tNo big companies; was tarn
entirely i'll the hands of this younc
n'la Three years ago he began spec-
u.a>.ng in The stock market. He bought
c"pl "r stools and was quite :; plunge
He lost heavily in AL his transactions.
ard began betting money with the 10
cal agents Of the handbook g;!rb!cr4
WI" hang about til" hotel corridors. He
sent some Money away by mail to the
hrldHlfHrtcfs of these gamblers in
Rhode Island, New York and New Or
leans, and lost heavily at this game
also. Becoming desperate, he began to
steal from his employers. Tho strange
thing in the case is that his; .trrlin-
was discovered before all these months
and years had passed.
When Treasurer Fairbanks went
away he left blank checks signed l.,
that Hod"GGH could fill them out to
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