The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-26
Cashier Departs with Girl
Waitress and Bunch
of Money
ONLY $1,000 LEFT
OUT OF $4,000
Head of Chicago House Former Brat
tleboro Man-Employe Said to Have
Confessed When Arrested in Cali
fornia-Lost at Craps.


Dice, Girl, Busy Pen, Arrests, and
$3,700 All That s Left Of Stolen $37,>
late issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune
on story which tells of an alleged en-
bezzlement from the bond house of c.
F. Childs & Co. of Chicago. G. Fred
Childs, head of the firm, is a former
Brattleboro man, son of the late Wal
ter H. Childs. The article in the Trib-
une reads
Craps at $1,000 a pass, q beauti-
ful and sympathetic lunch counter girl,
| and easy access to his employer g coin
We're a combination too strong for %
year old Francis C. Criss of 1921 Le
| Clair avenue. He was arrested vester-
! day IN Los Angeles, Cal, with Gladys
| Healy, the waitress for whom he de-
serted his bride of year ago, and for
whom he maintained an expensive
! apartment on Irving Park boulevard.
In his pocket was $3,700 in cash, the
remnant of some $37 900 to $4,000
which he is charged with having en-
bezzled from c. F. Childs & Co., bond
house at 208 South La Sale street, of
which his brother, Raymond j., is vice
president.
His arrest was followed by the cap
ture in Chicago of Morris Green, who
says he is jeweler, living at 2060
| North Clark street, and Samuel Bern
stein of 727 Aldine avenue. According
to Lieut.. John Lotus they got SIT 900
of the embezzled money.
All of the money taken by Friss was
embezzled between Sept. II and Oct. 2
of the present year.
Until week ago Friss was working
for the bond house as a cashier and
bookkeeper. His name and that OF a
Iyoung woman employee of the house
were the ones which were affixed to all
checks made out for the company.
Friss is said to have induced the
young woman to sign several firm
checks in blank just before she went
out for luncheon. One of these checks
he held out every day, afterwards
adding his own signature to make it
valid and then making it payable to
currency for sums ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000. These checks he
cashed at the firms bank without diff
Guilty.
The scheme could not have remained
undiscovered for more than thirty
days, and Friss evidently knew it, for
last Wednesday he disappeared, after
telling his wife he had gone to the
Office
1t was not until Sunday that his
brother notified the police of his dis
appearance, at the same time limiting
there might be a shortage and telling
of his brother s infatuation for wait
ress in a La Sale street restaurant
who had disappeared at the same time
he did.
1t was through the waitress that
Sergt. Dan Gilbert and Lieut.. LOTUS
located Friss. They found her trunks
i had been checked to Los Angeles and
they wired to the police there to make
the arrest. The pair were easily To-
Gated, living together as "Mr and Mrs.
Frank Healy''
. Friss almost Immediately confessed
{ telling the Los Angeles police that his
!. wealthy relatives would save him from
O prosecution and make things good with
. the bonding company.
o He told of his losses in the "craps u
: game and it was on the information
J. he furnished that Green and Bernstein
l. were arrested. Lieut.. Lotus saws the
: two men are experts with the dice
r, and accepted without question Friss
n -. q. L. IS for large amounts. which
y were always eashed the next dav will
e the money obtained on the check.
d made out by Friss.
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