The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
Timekeeper Told Employer
After Buying Expensive Auto.
One Year Later He AbScOnded
With $22,119.
INVITED AN INVESTIGATION
Told His Boss He Had an Out
side Income.
Saved $3.50 a Month on Salary
of $50.

New York, Aug 6-tBought a
motor car yesterday, chief. Cost me
$1,000 Thought I'd better tell you
before you began to wonder. You can
| investigate me if you want to. Truth
is, have an income of $500 a month
twice what you're paying me.
don't have to work. I'm here simply
to keep busy and out of mischief.
| Thought I'd tell you just to beat old
Mrs. Grundy to it,
Thus Edward G. Kindred, model
timekeeper for the Finn, O'Rourke
company. subway contractors, who on
Wednesday fled with $22, 119 of the
companys money, informed his en-
ployer, a year ago about the pur-
chase of the automobile he deserted
after his flight
Acting Captain Dewey of the First
Branch Detective bureau, declared to-
day that not in his TWENTY-FIVE years
of detective service has he seen so
much mystery around one individual.
Dewey believes Kindred had partner.
Whether this person is a man or
woman, Dewey is at a loss to say.
Big Bank Deposits.
But an investigation of all the tam
gible things Kindred left behind re-
vealed yesterday only enc fact--a
startling fact.
%, 1915, Kindred whose salary was
$3.50 a month, deposited in the bank
of Washington Heights about $3.50 a
month. This would seem to verify
Kindred's assertion he enjoyed an in
come of $500 month.
All his deposits, except two, were
made in cash. He paid for everything
by check. But neither the police nor
the mans employers have been able to
learn where the remittances came
from, or from whom. William A.
Finn, a member of the firm, declared
they had a hint that would lead to
fI1A EafcS <N1-frar
secret, but Dewey said he had not
heard of it.
A search of Kindred's rooms at No.
$50 West One Hundred and Sixty
third street, produced only one fact
that Kindred did not return there
after his flight
Kept Fine Liquors.
The place is neatly, but not eX-
pensively furnished. A trunk con-
tanned several suits of clothes A
as fine an assortment of liquors, whis-
kies and gins might be found in
the most luxurious bachelor quarters.
There is piano player for which Kin
dred paid $3.50 last June and an as
sortment of music rolls. I
Kindred had two motor cars. He
was accustomed, during the summer
and fall, to take the big car out early
in the evening and not return until
early in the morning He always
went out alone and returned alone.
But often there were evidences OF re-
cent occupation by one or more per-
sons.
kindred never took any of his fell |
low workers with him. He never
drank nor gambled in their presence.
Private Life Mystery.
The superintendent of the apart |
ment house declared Kindred was sell |
dom away from the place all night. |
He never received letters. Nobody |
who knew him ever saw him mail a
personal letter; he had not received |
ten telephone messages since he went |
to the place three years ago. /
The only deposits he made in the |
bank of Washington Heights other |
than cash were two checks-one for |
SAP and the other for 5000 Captain |
Dewey would not identify either of the |
checks. At present Kindred has a |
balance in the bank of less than 500. |
The man had had as much as $1,000 |
of his firms money in his hands at |
once, but that was before his balance |
in the bank ran low.
The sums he withdrew were large. |
Between April 90 and June 9, 1914, he |
withdrew $2.S43.23; between June 10 |
and August 4, $1.435.S7; between Au-
gust Is and December 81, $1,9S3.52;
between March L and June 8, 1915,
$737.69. His last withdrawal, $34S.75,
was made June 80, 1915.
Captain Dewey says he takes no
stock in the hints that Kindred was
robbed or kidnapped.