Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-19
b|sbEE|TE'S SAD
 EXPERIENCE
Provencher and Dunlop, Local Bookkeepers Form Unfor-
 tunate Partnership
FORMER RETURNS TO CAMP
 WISER BUT POORER MAN

Sadder but wiser. D. ]. Proyencher has returned to Bisbee after an ex periencc of four months in the brok' craze business with man whose af fairs are now in the hands of the Los Angeles stock exchange and in 2 sadly tangled condition. The bust ness partner was A. C. Dunlop. for meriy employed in the Copper Queen store as auditor where Proyencher was also employed on the books.
 According to the account of the business transactions between the two men. as related by Provencher to a Review reporter last evening, Dun iop was congeniality itself and the two were fast friends while working to- gether in Bisbee. He left Bisbee sev- eral months ago to engage in the brokerage business in Los Angeles and it was the last week in January that he met Provencher in that city where the latter had gone on trip O. re- cuperation just after a long illness.
 It required but a few days for Dun lop to convince Proyencher that the brokerage business was a paying one in the Angel City, the conversations eventually resulting in the forming of a partnership in which Proyencher provided the capital. $700, with which to open the office. Shortly after that time. Dunlop secured a seat in the stock exchange and the business out, look was promising
 For nearly three months, affairs pro- sressed nicely, as far as Provencher was able to see, he contentipg him self with caring for the office work while Dunlop did the outside hust' ling" The firm had in the meantime, become agents for several miping companies and handled considerable business but somehow the bank ac- count failed to show any material in crease.
 Provencher now explains that i; was the trick of Dunlop to go to the bank quite regularly and draw on the firms account for sums ranging from S10 to s25, just to tide over for a few days" Invariably, as Provencher discovered when it was too late, Dun lop would then return to the office and borrow small sums from his busi- ness partner. And by keeping the bank book at the bank. ProyencheT was kept in the dark of all the trans actions
 Suspicious Dem Deal
 Provencher discovered or suspic- toned nothing, he says, until during the first week of June, he saw Dunlop dis posing of some Denn-Arizona stock, which he. Proyencher, knew was not the property of the firm. His suspic' ions were at once aroused and during a quiet investigation he learned that Dunlop was making afternoon visits to the exchange, where purchases were being made with alarming regularity.
 Dunlop's method was to buy in the afternoon at which times he would have until 10 o'clock the following morning to pay for his purchases. By this time he would have ample time to dispose of his holdings to some unsuspecting individual, but should he fail, then the bank account of the firm would receive another visit.
 Proyencher says when he discovered this. he Immediately made prepara- tiops to disengage from the business. It required the services of two attor. ueys to straighten out the tangle so that, should business complications ensue. he would not be caught in the net spun by his partner. As soon as he was out of the company he called at the bank where he received the answer. mo funds.
 He continued to remain in the onic' of Dunlop & Co.,, in the capacity of a clerk until last week at which time he had received sufficient compensa ten for his services to return to Bis pee. which he lost no time in doing returning here last Sunday.
 Provencher declares he was simply 'bilked out of his money but glad to know that no blame of other question able transaction can now be laid al his door. He has been advised that since Sunday, no trace of Dunlop has been found in Los Angeles