The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-17
GOSSIP AND SCANDAL 4 !
RESULT OF SUSPICION
Bank Cashier Victim of Suspicion
by Under Employees in Do
nestle Affairs.
How Some Bright Detective Work
by the Stenographer and
Bookkeeper Failed.

OErapher girl fault Tor she tOlQ the
collection clerk, and he told the book
keeper, who was a man gossip, anyway
that the cashiers wife must be q dowd
whatever that is.
"Ill bet her cloak is last years, and
that she has dark hair and combs It
plain on the Sides" said the steno-
grapher as she arranged with def
touches the masses of fluffy, pretty
hair the encircled her own pretty face.
The stenographer, by the way, never
collection clerk and the bookkeeper
didn't know that. And for that matter
neither Of them knew what dowd was
but they were satisfied that it was
something plain and cheap, and alto
gether unlovely.
Catch Cashier With Blonde.
So, when one noon, the collection
clerk happened to see Jim Saunders,
the cashier enter a popular and expen-
s1ve restaurant with a queenly young
woman, who had wavy blonde tresses,
a perfect complexion, dazzling white
teeth, and dressed in faultless taste, he
opened his eyes with wonder and then
hurried back to the office to tell the
news
20, but he's a sly one," chuckled the
bookkeeper. Il wonder who she is?'
IT'S a cinch his wife doesn't know"
replied the collection clerk.
Thenceforth the collection clerk. and
the bookkeeper watched the cashier
! closely. He was unquestionably a
moral reprobate, and it would doubt
less be their stern duty to expose his
obliquity sooner or later, and they
| wanted evidence.
At the end of the week the book
! keeper was able to report that the
| cashier had taken the queenly young
woman to Thomas concert and a
| Holmes lecture. The collection clerk
| had caught him red handed in the act
| of buying two dozen American beauty
| roses, while the stenographer had sur
| peep1ng at photograph concealed in
little secret drawer in his desk
20. your Wife's pictured" she said
with her most sympathetic SMILE The
cashier only looked confused and hast
| lily closed the drawer. The stenograph-
er felt more than rewarded.
Uncover Wiokedness Of Cashier.
Another week passed but the vigil
lance Of the watchers was rewarded
with but little evidence of the cashiers
turpitude. The third week, however,
been seen to get into a closed carriage
with the queenly young woman and
to drive south in Michigan avenue.
And his home was on the north side,
too.
Within few days after the discov-
cry Of the closed carriage incident, the
cashier was sent to New York on pri-
'vate business for the firm. 1t was like
holiday for him as he hadn't been out
of the city for two years.
The collection clerk posted himself on
h0 FOL 1vuo
the cashiers departure on the $50
train that evening. Both the steno-
grapher and the bookkeeper knew all
the next forenoon that the collection
clerk was almost bursting with sup
pressed mystery; but it was not until
after the senior partner and the Junior
partner had left the law office that the
collection clerk found time to dispos-
sess himself of the startling news.
Did you see him go?" asked the
stenographer.
Sure replied the clerk. land what
do you think? He kept walking up
and down the platform every minute
looking at his watch, swapping it shut,
then opening it to see|what time it was
again. But just two minutes before
train time a closed carriage drove up
and she got out. He hurried her to
the car, and they were scarce on board
OClO1e IHC u all pulIcu OUT.
Are you sure she was the same
one?' insisted the stenographer
'Of course 1 am
THE hussy," said the bookkeeper, at
which the stenographer pretended to
blush.
His wife ought to be told" contin-
ued the bookkeeper, "but who will tell
her?'
why rot write her letter and tell
her all we have SEEM" suggested the
collection clerk.
But not sign it," put in the steno-
grapher.
"Of course not" all three at once.
A letter was written containing list
| Of all the social delinquencies Of the
! absent and all unsuspecting cashier.
| The queenly looking young woman was
| faithfully described, dates and places
referred to. and enough circumstantial
evidence piled up to satisfy the most
exacting of divorce courts And the
news that the cashier had taken the
same queenly looking young woman to
! New York with him.
The letter was carefully addressed to
the cashiers wife, marked personal
and confidential.' Then the trio watt
ed for developments.
Right here is where the stenographer
| Hdoe the fatal Dlunder. She cOvertly
dropped few hints to the junior part
ner OF the impending domestic tragedy
in the cashiers life. The Junior part
ner, worried, told the senior partner.
Then the whole story was dragged from
! the unwilling bookkeeper
The senior partner was full of years
! and knew exactly what to do in the
case. He telegraphed the cashier to
wait for further instructions to come
by mail and then directed an expert ex-
animation of the cashiers books and
accounts.
When young man neglects his wife
and goes to buying American beauty
/ roses and opera boxes for young wo-
man who looks and dresses like queen
the firm generally has to pay for 1t"
said the senior partner.
Storm Breaks Over Office.
This development of events was en-
tirely unexpected to the stenoRrapher.