ROBBERY BY A CASHIER.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 695, 9 August 1870, Page 3

ROBBERY BY A CASHIER.

The following is from the " Alta California": Rothschild has been robbed of two and a half millions of francs, by a '' faithful cashier" of eighteen years' standing. It is the only house in Paris where millions were come-at-able, and the delinquent was head of the gold-room is lame, and by the by, the Israelitish house has several cripples in its employ! Tassius is a German, and his life showed no indications of his peculations. His tastes were confined to presiding over a beer and smoking club —he was an admirer of Wagner's music, and an entomologist. His " mistress" was not expensive, and she had less than half the serpent in her character, which according to Heine, is all a man oughttoexpectfrom his Aspasia. The sums abstracted were passed to aPrussian doctor to speculate with on' Change. This gentleman is very ill, but has two policemen for nursetenders. There is one redeeming feature about Tassius—he was not religious. For five years he was helping himself to the Baron's precious metal, another instance that the only way to prevent such accidents is to make all trustworthy clerks take a month's vacation annually. The cashier that glues himself to his stool should be regarded as a " suspect."