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100 years ago …
The Friday, Dec. 24, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that W.F. Hetrick was due to return to Marietta that morning from Columbia, South Carolina in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Sanders. Hetrick was president, treasurer and manager of the Acworth Manufacturing Company. When the books showed a $50,000 shortage, he skipped town after making bond on Oct. 9, 1920.
Hetrick was tracked to Oak Hill, Flordia, where his wife had become a school teacher. Later, she quit and went to Daytona, Florida, and while there a coded letter from Hetrick was intercepted and showed that he was in Winona, Minnesota. From there he was traced to Rochester, New York, then to Niagara Falls before he jumped to Philadelphia where he worked as a proof-reader in a newspaper plant for $18 a week. ....

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