To cover up their defalcations the suspects frequently tell a story of having beea robbed by armed bandits or pickpockets, but police investigation quickly elicits the true account from them.
"Yes, I went "to such-and-such gambling-house in Jessfield hoping to make some easy money at the games. Instead I kept losing until all the money was gone."
Employers are warned by the police not to entrust casual employees with large sums of cash as it has been noted again and again that such servants are not always proof against the temptation to risk the money io the gambling dens. There have been many cases in which $12-a-month cooties have been given several thousand dollars in cash with instructions to take the money to some bank: Naturally, such a commission places a serious temptation bejgre the messenger who easily conceives the idea of making some money quickly for himself before he carries out his instructions.
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