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The undersigned would state that James T. White son of D r J. B. White, of Danville, Ky, was several years since apprenticed to them to learn the printing business; that he had not been long in our employ, before we discovered that he had a propensity to pilfer small articles from other persons in the office; the articles generally being of small value, and often of a character not at all useful to himself, and which he would at the first opportunity present to others, and afterwards frequently pilfer them from the persons to whom he gave them, and give them to others again. The fact that he was repeatedly detected, and did not at all improve in his habits in the respect referred to, and his general manner and other things, convinced us that his mind was diseased in that particular, and that his pilfering propensities had become a monomania with him. He is a kind, good=hearted young man, and we do not believe he would maliciously injure any one by depriving them of their property; and our belief that he is a monomaniac on the subject of pilfering, has been confined by our knowledge and observation of this course during a series ^of years^ and we may add that the opinion we have herein expressed of him is the same which is entertained by all who are intimately acquainted with him.
Danville, Ky.
Jas F. Zimmerman --
Jno F. Zimmerman & Son
Jno. F Zimmerman
Remitted
B. M
Isd