Cincinnati Daily Press

A Mysterious Disappearance Explained--Repentance of a Dishonest Clerk.

A Boston paper, of late date, observes:

The public mind has not ceased to be agitated by the disappearance, some three months ago, of Charles S. Doyen, a lad of sixteen, with a thousand dollars in money belonging to the firm of Plummer & Co., flour dealers in this city. So upright was the boy, so entire the confidence reposed in him, and so conclusive the circumstances that he could not have premeditated absence that many have felt that he must have met with foul play.

He has, however, lately communicated with his employers through his pastor, assuring them that his departure was not thought of till after he left the store; confessing his deep sense of the wrong, alleging his sincere penitence, and giving the best possible proof of penitence by restoring more than nine hundred dollars of the money, in the identical bills he carried away. He has been at work upon a farm ever since the first fortnight after his disappearance, promising to repay the balance, principal and interest, as soon as he can earn it, and seems thus to have put himself every way in a right position again. His employers retain the kindest feelings toward him, and have the fullest confidence that he will yet make a useful and honored citizen.— Boston Transcript, June 22.