The late Edmund Clarence Stedman told of his experiences as a clerk in
the office of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad:
Finding his cash short one day, to the extent of two cents,
Stedman took the money out of his pocket and dropt it into the
till. After he had left the employment of the company he met in
the street one day the treasurer of the company, who asked him
whether his cash account was right every time while he was with
the company. When the treasurer’s attention was called to the
exception he exclaimed, “Confound you, Stedman, we have had the
whole force of the office at work for weeks trying to find that
two cents.”
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