Arizona republican., 1921-11-01
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 Environment and Crime.
 The environment in which a risk is located is also an important consid- eration to the bonding companies. Movie cashiers rarely embezzle. but a good deal of money has been lost on people associated with musical comedies. There is something about a musical comedy-probably its gay, carefree atmosphere of wine, woman and song-that seems to pave the way to easy embezzlement.
 It is also interesting to note that In the new rich sections of the South west, particularly in Texas and Ok lahoma, where fortunes are often made (and lost) in a night. there Is much more embezZlement than in the northeastern states, where mon making Is a hard and slow busi- ness.
 The files of the large bonding com panies contain many strange and TO- mantle stories of the rise and fall of embezzlers. Some day, perhaps. the movies will realize the screen possi- bilities of such material and buy the movie rights to a bonding company's files, thereby turning poor risks into good ones. What could be more moviesque. for instance. than this melodrama with a happy ending, related by MT. Joyce of the National Surety company?
 One day a young teller in small Middle Western bank missed four S1.000 bills from his cage. He search ed all over the place. took everything out of the safe. checked and re- checked his figures, but the four thousand dollars had completely dis appeared. After worrying about the matter for a couple of days. he went to the president of the bank and told him of the loss, asking for a little time in which to find the missing money.
 The president scoffed indignantly at the young mans story and re- minded him that when four thousand dollars vanished into the air. the loss could usually be explained. Either you will make it good" said the pres ident, ''or you will go to the peni- tentiary!"
 This terrible threat was not CIT ried out however. The teller wal | merely discharged, but the stain or his character made it difficult foi him to get work in the vicinity. Nc other bank or business firm would employ him, and he was compelled | to do manual labor.
 I Ten years later the bank decided to remodel its interior. Behind [ loose panel fin the wall of the teller. cage the missing S1,000 bills wer' | found. It was the teller's oppor- | tunity for righteous retribution. anS he took advantage of it. Having lost his job and reputation througl | suit for defamation of character anC received a great deal more than thu | missing four thousand dollars. Thus as Mir. n. ". Griffith would say wns manly virtue rewarded For movie comedy material ther' | is the case of a young clerk. also fl ! a Middle Western bank. who wa | dispatched to the railroad station | with $500 requested by a wealthy de- | positor who was passing through tn | town. It was a breezy March day and as the clerk waited for the trair ! he strode briskly up and down thl | platform, whistling and tossing tn, | bills into the air. Suddenly the, | were caught in the wind and swep | down the railroad track. A hog for aging along the track sniffed tn | money and swallowed it. The poo | clerk went in search of the man wh' owned the hog and bought it. TheI he had it butchered, hoping that it | stomach would contain fragm9lts O l the money that would be redeemabl at the Treasury Department bu the hog had masticated too efficient ly. The $500 was ruined. and tn l surety company had to make gooG | the banks loss.