. The Saturday evening post. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 153 THE LOOTEMi (Continued from Page 32) the accounts of depositors, and whenchecks of suitable size came in she madeduplicates of them by tracing. She thenretraced the signature of the depositoron the back of each check, indorsing thecheck over to herself under any of hervarious assumed names. She then went toher various other banks and deposited thefraudulent checks, drawing out the next destroyed the checks as they cameback to her own bank. One day after shehad been operating in this way for five orsix months she carelessly le
. The Saturday evening post. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 153 THE LOOTEMi (Continued from Page 32) the accounts of depositors, and whenchecks of suitable size came in she madeduplicates of them by tracing. She thenretraced the signature of the depositoron the back of each check, indorsing thecheck over to herself under any of hervarious assumed names. She then went toher various other banks and deposited thefraudulent checks, drawing out the next destroyed the checks as they cameback to her own bank. One day after shehad been operating in this way for five orsix months she carelessly left one of theduplicated checks in her file, and wascaught. She had got five thousand dollarsby this clever jugglery and spent it on herhusband, whom she loved more than hedeserved. Restitution was made. But there is yet a side to the matter ofstealing frcm banks that exerts a morecompelling pressure upon us than mere in-terest in the why or the how of is the human and inhuman side, theromance and the pity of it
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