Arizona republican., 1911-01-31
DISCLOSED BY HIMSELF
His Accounts Were Found to Be Straight and Money to Make Good the Short age Was on the Way to Phoenix.

William j. C Horstman. for the last TWO years chief clerk of the money or der department of the Phoenix post office. or, as he vas officially desig- mated, foreman of the money order de partment. was arrested yesterday. charged with the embeZZlement of Sl.33317 of the funds Of th" United States. The warrant was issued by United States Commissioner JohnSt0ne on the formal complaint of William 4. Golden. postoffice inspector, presented by Assistant United States Attorney J. c Forest.
 IL was brought out that the money had been returned. and late in the afternoon HorStman's bond of S2.500 was arranged by telegraph.
 The case is a little different from most cases of rmbezzlement in that Horstman never intended to defraud the government and. that coupled with The abstraction of sums from the de partment was the preparation Of plans for replacing them. H. was not de- pending upon the result of some lucky speculation but upon the certain knowl- edge that he could get the money. for his family in St Louis is well to do.
 The first knowledge Of the Gefalca- Ii0n came from Horstman himself in q communication to Postmaster Me Chinook last Tuesday in which he stated that he was short SI.374. The communication was precipitated by the bElief That his accounts were about to be inspected. Inspector Dutton. who IS assigned to this jurisdiction. was about the office a great deal and Inspector n ia fsss Ngf the annual inspection was about to be begun.
 Horstman stated that he had been withdrawing sums of money from the and. in small amounts. the largest neing Sl5O This had been going on s,r several months though il was not ce-un until after the last regular in- spection.
 . Believing that there would be an in sp-ctiOn before rebruary |, Horstman nal arranged for a remittance from St. Louis by that time. IL has already come. but il came three days too late. On Friday If last week the dedication was made good. In no event however would the government have been loser since HOrstman was under United States Fidelity Guaranty bond of S20OO
 An investigation Of the accounts of Horstman. in which he afforded assist snce was made by Inspectors Dutton and Golden and il was found that the actual shortage was $40 less than HOrStman had written Postmaster Me clintOck. IL was found that he had made an error against himself in the receipts of a single day. His accounts were otherwise straight: there was no attempt at Justification.
 It was with regret that the postoffice authorities proceeded against him, and it is also with regret that the United States attorneys office entered upon the prosecution of him. but the regu- lations Of the government leave no al- t-rnative in cases Of this sort.
 H0rstman was an efficient clerk and even now. it is believed. an honest though an irregular one He came here from St Louis bearing the highest recommendations after nine years of service in the office here.
 The most pitiful feature of the affair is the suffering of his family consist ing of his wife and three children. the eldest and the youngest only few months old. Mrs. HOrstman vis-