TREASURY ROBBED
WOMEN CLERKS DISMISSED AVASHINGTON, April 25. The Treasury has discharged four elderly women clerks for stealing a total of about lOOdol over a period of years. The Treasury withheld the names, and it will not prosecute. The women were engaged in counting worn bills ‘ returned by banks, and they had been pocketing the excess when the_ bank count was too low. Marked bills resulted in their being exposed. Hitherto it was believed impossible to rob the Treasury.
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Evening Star, Issue 22632, 26 April 1937, Page 9
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79TREASURY ROBBED Evening Star, Issue 22632, 26 April 1937, Page 9
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