The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Girl Lived High on Stolen Cash.


Girl Lived High on Stolen Cash.
New York, Jan. 18.-Joseph w.
Cushman, head of the real estate firm
of Joseph w. Cushman & Co., with
Offices at No. 240 West Twenty-third.
street, was looking over his books
last evening when he gasped:
"A shortage of s2,0O0!"
He called his private secretary and
bookkeeper, Miss Ada M. Ellis, %
years old, who for five years had en-
joyed the full confidence of her en-
ployers. She came forward smiling.
What does this mean?" he asked.
What does what mean?" she
queried.
"This $4,000 shortage. You're the
only one can explain it,"
The suggestion that she was ST.
900 short in her accounts seemed to
amuse the girl.
How did you discover it," she
asked nonchalantly.
when a check for $500 came in,
he replied. 1T was endorsed by
you and was cashed by you. You
falsifed the books and used the
money"
The young woman was beginning
to pale, but she was fully composed
as she said:
"Well, that doesn't make $4,000
shortage, does it? I don't think there
is more than $1,000 gone"
"Then you admit there is short
age?"
81 admit nothing she retorted,
and biting her lips she returned to
her work.
Detectives Martin and Scanlon
came from the West Thirtieth street
station. They and Mr.. Cushman say
that Miss Ellis made this statement:
Eyes; I took the money and used
it. You know my home is in Engle-
wood. It's so slow out there l got
fearfully bored, 50 came to New
York and rented an apartment with
girl friend at No. 3,10Q Broadway.
Several days a week 1 would go out
and spend the night with my mother
in Englewood, but I loved life In
New York. I gave theatre parties
and dinners to my friends"
"You couldn't have done that on
your salary of .s45 month" spoke
up Cushman.
"Who said 1 did," she retorted. Il
tried hard to make good all the
money I was spending. I heard OF
how some people made big money
on the races and I began to play
tn m. It was not unusual for me to
make a bet of 500 or even $3.50 on
race, but I was bad picker OF
winners. Luck was against me.
>"But l want to repeat, Mr.. Cush-
man, that don't believe the shortage
is more than $780,"
On a charge of grand larceny Miss
Ellis was taken to the West Th1r-
tieth street station. She was bum
died up in handsome furs, and her
hat and gown were stylish. She an
swered the ieutenant's questions
calmly until she was asked to give
her street address in Englewood.
"That I'll never tell you," she
cried, losing control of herself. my
mother must not know anything
about this"
To a reporter for the World Miss
Ellis said:
"When l was fourteen my father
sent me to Paris to be educated. |
was in a convent there four years.
After my return to America my faith
er met reverses and was compelled
to 20 to work. l am in all this stew
simply because 1 love good time. =
Cushman said last night that he
believed at least two other persons
were implicated in the shortage.
Il might add also that the short
age may run to many times s2,OOO,'
he went on. 81 have only examined
the books back to last September.
The girls father was a prosperous
piano manufacturer some years ago.
1t is my impression that he is dead.
The Camilla, Ca, city council has
evolved a new way of enforcing the