AN AMUSING EPISODE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 52, 21 June 1876, Page 2

AN AMUSING EPISODE.

For the following amusing little e]>& in American life we are indebted to s Louisiana correspondent of the " Gazette" :—" Our most recent cause cefc is' the Dudenheyer case. Dudenheyer f receiving teller of the GerinaniaKationalßs: and—to put it as mildly as possible—did l give that excellent institution credit for as 20,000 dollars which depositors had in its books. He confessed his ? and ran. His sureties paid up, and caE; him. He was tried, and the jury, after te locked up for forty hours, found liiffl' guilty. For he was a fireman. You ' ask, How doer his being a fireman ace* for his acquittal, after having admitted > charge ? The answer is, You cannot cot* a popular fireman; the ' boys ' would j permit? it. Mr. Dudenheyer was a to? popular fireman, and a 'good Demos 1 But for this little indiscretion, he would - :: have been spoken of as ' one of our oldest best.' The presiding judge rated the } soundly, and is himself rated by the $ for presuming to impugn the sacred free citizens to break their oaths. I cifcp not out of any malice towards Mr. ]>■? heyer (whom I never saw) or affection io* _ Germania Bank (which never lent me a but to justify a conviotion which > been long in my mind, that this I*' as a people, are so befogged by F°| . partisanship and social prejudice as to he capable of discriminating between ahstr right and wrong. The argument in the f sent case most likely was, ' The bank h* lost anything; the sureties have pai<h. .* perhaps he'll make it up. The er ' good fellow; let him go.'" \