SMART LAST TYPIST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1907, Page 13

SMART LAST TYPIST.

2HNETY THOCSANTV POTJ>T)S IN TWO DEALS. In an article entitled ■"•Romances of the Stock Exchange," in the "Strand Magazine." appears the following story of tow a wealthy financier was outwitted by a woman:— "It sometimes happens that employees who are entrusted with the secrets of great City magrmtfps use the information they thus acquire to serve their own ends. On one oecasioa a typist employed by a great financier obtained possession of information which she conveyed to her lover, a small broter, who used the knowledge thus ootained to make profits to the extent of £60.000. "Discovering the dishonesty, the magnate discharged her, and proceeded to ruin her lover. But, for some reason or other, tnis process was deferred by the broker's good luck. Bnt at last the web of the great financier was seen to be closing about Ixl3 victim, whose young, beautiful, but unscrupulous wife resolved at any cost to save him. Being denied an interview witn her former employer, she obtained a situation in ht« household as a common servant by means of forged references. "In this capacity she earned her mistress' goodwill, and obtained possession of some of her master's private correspondence, ft so happened that amongst the letters intercepted was one from the magnate's brotner In the Transvaal, giving such information that her husband was able to effect a deal netting him £30,000. A second discovery followed, bnt the pair left England, and the man is now a flourishing bucket-shop proprietor in America"