A CLERK’S CONSCIENCE
HAD STOLEN £150,000 ARREST AFTER CONFESSION NEW YORK, August 17. George Phalen, for 13 years confidential clerk to Jules Bache and Company, a leading firm of brokers, called upon his managing-director recently because his conscience troubled him after the theft of £150,000. Phalen did not have a cent' of this money left, and his employers were greatly puzzled to know what to do about him. Phalen’s chief failing was to give tips of £2OO to night club singers who could make him weep by singing Irish songs. To-day Mr Bache had him arrested. • ; i
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 205, 24 August 1932, Page 2
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97A CLERK’S CONSCIENCE Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 205, 24 August 1932, Page 2
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