. The Saturday evening post. e of five large firms, whose total numberof employees varied but little in the three years examined. Crimes Traceable to High Living Costs ABREWERY suffered one loss in 1915, two in 1917 andthree in 1918. An insurance concern experienced one embezzlement in1915. In 1917 three employees absconded; in 1918, fifteen. A packing house lost through one embezzler in 1915,through four in 1917 and through four in 1918. The lastnamed were all heavier than previous losses. A department store had three small losses in 1915,twenty-three small losses in 1917 and forty-three in 1
. The Saturday evening post. e of five large firms, whose total numberof employees varied but little in the three years examined. Crimes Traceable to High Living Costs ABREWERY suffered one loss in 1915, two in 1917 andthree in 1918. An insurance concern experienced one embezzlement in1915. In 1917 three employees absconded; in 1918, fifteen. A packing house lost through one embezzler in 1915,through four in 1917 and through four in 1918. The lastnamed were all heavier than previous losses. A department store had three small losses in 1915,twenty-three small losses in 1917 and forty-three in 1918,some of the latter serious. A dairy company had two such losses in 1915, five in1917 and seven in 1918. Two other concerns on which there are no 1915 figuresexperienced an increase in embezzlement of from fifty-fourto sixty-nine and from seventy-three to eighty-three be-tween 1917 and 1918. These are figures of ordinary in-dustrial or commercial firms, and they show that with rising prices comemore frequent Whan tho Train Was Plowing Through tho NevadaDesert Lands One of the Men Hopped to tho End oftho Car Putt the Dozing Porter In the cases of banks it is trite to say that men on thesmallest salaries have often stolen the largest C. Seeley, bookkeeper in the Shoe and LeatherNational Bank, New York, some years ago, was paid onehundred and fifty dollars a month and stole $354, L. Alvord, Jr., note teller in the First NationalBank of New York, was paid $5000 a year and got awaywith $690,000. William F. Walker, treasurer of the Sav-ings Bank of New Britain, Connecticut, on a nominalsalary, stole $565,000 back in 1907. George W. Coleman,a bookkeeper of the National City Bank of Cambridge,Massachusetts, was paid fifty dollars a month and stole$309,000. August Ropke, assistant secretary of the Fidel-ity Trust Company of Louisville, Kentucky,was paid one hundred and fifty dollars amonth in 1910, when the president of thebank had him arres
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