Word: ledgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT W. BROWN Editor The Columbus Ledger Columbus...
...robbers were like automatons. Each knew his purpose. One disconnected the the alarm system, another ripped out of the ledger the record of the day's receipts, the other disarmed the befuddled and disbelieving Brink's men, then tied their hands and feet with 38 strips of sash cord, gagged them with adhesive tape...
...system was simple: he pocketed cash a depositor pushed across the counter-usually $25 and never more than $100. He credited the sum to the depositor's account, then extracted ledger cards of other depositors. These he shifted around, always keeping out deposit cards equivalent to his total embezzlement to that date. Thus the ledgers always balanced, and the defrauded depositors never discovered the thefts. In 14 years George took $7,541 without a soul's being the wiser, although there were about 150 bank examinations during the period...
Eleven years passed. Then, last summer, the bank missed four ledger cards. Orville asked George if he knew where they had gone. George-being George-confessed his crime immediately. He settled up. But Orville-being Orville-fired him forthwith, and reported the crime. George pleaded guilty in federal court...
When asked whether the work would be a defense of McCarthyism, Bozell said, "It will be an examination, but not necessarily a defense. In looking at the ledger so far, however, we've discovered that a great deal of the charges made against Buckley are false. We intend to set the record straight...