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In fine, it appeared that the sum total of his defalcations amounted to some eighty thousand dollars. "What had he done with all that money? The magistrate before whom he was brought at once asked that question. He replied that he had not a cent left. His explanations and his excuses were the old story pleaded by all who put their hands into their neighbors' pockets.
In two or three instances young men of good bringing up, who had earned enviable reputations for diligence and good conduct, were lured into the gambling dens, robbed there, and at last were tempted to defalcations and even sheer robberies of the employers who trusted them.
In old newspaper files at the State Library, he had found the facts of his father's defalcations. The total embezzlement from the Weyland estate, allowing for $14,000 recovered in the enforced settlement of Surface's affairs, stood at $203,000.
To punish the masters for their delinquencies was not enough; greater sacrifices than a few comparatively obscure placemen were demanded by the suitors and wards whose money had been squandered by the fraudulent trustees. The Lord Chancellor should be made responsible for the Chancery defalcations. That was the will of the country.
On the death of Adam Jellicoe, the father of Cort's partner, in August, 1789, defalcations were discovered in his public accounts to the extent of 39,676L, and his books and papers were immediately taken possession of by the Government.
His Majesty was always excessively severe on defalcations; any Chancellor, with his Exchequer-bills gone wrong, would have fared ill in that country. Still more tragical was poor Hesse's case. Hesse, some domain Rath out at Konigsberg, concerned with moneys, was found with account-books in a state of confusion, and several thousands short, when the outcome was cleared up.
Constant efforts were made to expose defalcations in the revenue, to curtail exorbitant salaries, and to put down electioneering corruption. In 1809 Erskine introduced a bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals. In 1810 there were earnest, if somewhat futile, debates on spiritual destitution, the non-residence and poverty of the clergy, and the scarcity of places of worship.
"As to advancement in morals, there never was so much intemperance in our people before, and the papers are full of accounts of frauds, defalcations, forgeries, robberies, assassinations, and arsons. Against this tide of corruption the various organized denominations of religion do nothing effectual.
A huge, magnificently-equipped hospital for sick children had been thrown open in Paris that very morning, a gift to the nation from Citoyen Deroulede. Surely he was privileged to talk a little, if it pleased him. His hospital would cover quite a good many defalcations. Even the rabid Mountain, Danton, Merlin, Santerre, shrugged their shoulders. "It is Deroulede, let him talk an he list.
He had thought it necessary to put these facts which would not be denied before the Court, in order that it might be known how heavy the defalcations really had been, and that they should be considered in dealing with the prisoner. "The Recorder asked if there was no possibility of recovering any part of the vast sum concerned. "Mr.
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