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The Ogden Standard
Ogden, Weber County, Utah
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In St. Louis, Mo., on Jan. 20, former bank employee Wisely confesses to stealing $11,000 through vault cash theft and manipulating a $10,000 check entry to obtain clearing house certificates, which he cashed and stored in safety deposit boxes in Spokane and Portland. He left the bank in November 1908 and was arrested while learning plumbing.
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St. Louis. Mo., Jan. 20. Wisely made a signed confession tonight, admitting he had obtained $11,000 from the bank while employed as paying teller and blotter clerk. He says the first thousand dollars he took was in cash from the vault. He then, through manipulation, had a ten thousand dollar check entered on the books twice and he obtained clearing house certificates for the check.
He cashed the clearing house certificates and rented safety deposit boxes in Spokane and Portland. He left the bank in November 1908, and came here a month later. When arrested he was learning the plumbers trade.
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St. Louis, Mo.; Spokane; Portland
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November 1908
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Wisely, a bank paying teller and blotter clerk, stole $1,000 in cash from the vault and manipulated books to enter a $10,000 check twice, obtaining and cashing clearing house certificates. He stored the money in safety deposit boxes in Spokane and Portland, left the bank in November 1908, moved to St. Louis, and was arrested while learning plumbing, later confessing on Jan. 20.