CASHIER'S DOUBLE LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 8

CASHIER'S DOUBLE LIFE.

Tlio investigation of the affairs of.. Jo'im Sehildkiiecht, 23 years old, cashier of the Wns'hbuni Crosby Flour Company, of New York, whoso accounts show d shortage exceeding £20,000, discloses that the young man for tlio last three months had 'been leading a. remarkable donblo life From 9 a.m. to S p.m. oncli working day tho was a £4 a week cashier, respectful, upright, and honest. At night, and over week-ends ho posed at fasliionablo seaside resorts as a millionaire's son, stayed at the most expensivd hotels, owned two 1 expensive motorcars, and in other ways spent moiiey lavishly. So well did ho play tlio dual rolo that it \vn3 not until ho disappeared, on August 27; and his books woro examined, that lus employers had , tlio slightest suspicion that * Schildknecht was a, thief, and offered' a ro-, ward of £300 for his arrest. Detectives who have been" prying into the details of his past life alleged that from M;ty 1 to August' 27 ho gc* cupicd a sumptuous suite of rooms in a seaside hotel for "which iie paid £'23 a week. The wages ho paid his chauffeur oxcecded his own as cashier. Every welting lio was met at tlio railway sta- ' tion by ©no of his hijih-powered motorcars, and from that tuns until the next morning, when lie eam<Jio town again, ho led a life of hixur.v and case. So lavish Was his expenditure, that ho became generally known as " th« boy miniona.ro."