How it Happened
=♦ He was a bank teller. He had been sent ofFon a vacation, his books overhauled, and he had been found $9 000 short. This fact stared him in the face as he sat amidst tht; Board of Directors. '• Now than," said tbe President, "I presume you acknowledge the embezzlement !" " T do " " And how did y ou use the money ?" " In speculating." "In what?' "Well I was a bull in X, V, Z, railroad stocks, but there were too much against me. I didn't bave a fair show to mate anything." .. Why— how ?" " Welt while I was using $9,000 ot the bank's money to bull the stocks, the cashier was put-in- up $?0,000 to bear them, ana so T lost all ."
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 88, 29 December 1883, Page 3
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123How it Happened Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 88, 29 December 1883, Page 3
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