TRUSTED SERVANTS FAIL.
CONFESS TO YEARS OF WRONGDOING. (Received Tills Day! at Noon.) i NEW YORK, August U. Joseph Wal'd, cashier iu a hank at i Benwood; West A'lrginia, has been ar rested on a charge of stealing £60,000 1 sterling from the Bank. He was ap i pointed cashier 24 years ago. In the , following year, according to Ward’-, . confession, he commenced taking money and continued systematically , till he fled when investigation commenecd a month ago. Colonel William Grey Beach, Superintendent under the Narcotic Enforce- , ment Act in Chicago for a period of ' forty years, confessed to conducting a traffic with underworld) sellers of narcotics while posing as their prosecutor. Three of his assistants were arrested. Guards constantly watch Beach in view of his threat to commit suicide.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 August 1925, Page 3
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129TRUSTED SERVANTS FAIL. Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 August 1925, Page 3
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