Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-10-09
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l'rEcIAL TO THE GOLD NIL DAILY urvsl
San Francisco, October 9.-The fail.
ure OF the Pioneer Bank threatens to prove
no Joke TO depositors. but decidedly the
best Joke Of the season m TO the sur.
face in ar interview with a Call reporter
had to-day with Thomas Gray. President
Of the suspended bank. II is proper TO
state. as 4 preface to the interview. tia.
Mr.. Gray is q very Straightforward. blunt
spoken style Of . man, who bears . high
reputation for integrity. but rs regards
his reputation As . ~inancier he never had
~any-good. bad or indifferent. lie Il
father-in.law Of W. 7. Duncan. to which
fact he probably owed his position As
President. On being approached by . re-
porter with the customary request for In.
formation concerning the Affairs Of the
bank. no Was at first disposed to DO un.
communicative, but on being pressed
broke out a. follows: 81 don't want TO
say anything about the Affairs OF tho bank.
I don't know anything about them ; l
never did know anything about them and
/ don't want to know anything about
them. All I know 10 that when I wa
hArd.up for the necossaries Of life ! was
appointed President ct . salary which
would about keep . dog. I went In there,
sat Of my desk and drew my sAlary-and
that's all I ever did. I never knew what
was going on In the bank. Duncan never
told me anything about II. and no mi
paid any attention to what I had TO say. I
didn't know anything about how things
stood on Saturday, and supposed every.
thing was a. usual. This morning I re-
ceivcd q note from Mr.. Duncan telling me
not TO go down 70 the bank. ! didn't
know what to mako OF II; I thought I had
been discharged, until I looked In the
cd; and now where's my salary"
Warrants to-day were issued for the Or.
rest Of j. q. Duncan, manager Of the Pho
ncer Bank and principal stakeholder OF
ths Safe Deposit Company. and BENJAMIN
G. Lewarne, Secretary Of the Safe Deposit
Company. charged with being jointly con-.
ccrned In over issue Of tho stock Of the
Safe Deposit Company. Tho amount Of
over issue Is not yet ascertained, but 10 10
known to be large. The owe issue wa
manipulated by Lewarne, who, In making
transfers Of the stock, would all out new
certificates. and after obtaining the sigma.
turc Of the President OF the company
Eugene Casssrly). would interpolAte
words and figures to raise the face Of the
certificate ten or o hundred fold. These
were then hypothetical by
Duncan, which raises tho presumption
that no and Lewarne put up the Job Boz
tween them. W. 8. Lucky. secretary pro
TEN. Of the company. will issue tomorrow
= call for all tho stockholders OF the COM
pany 10 send In their certificates 10 enable
the officers 10 Ascertain the amount OF the
overissue. 30 far ~ deposits In tho vault
Of the company are concerned, everything
Ia all right. The vault has three doors,
the outer one OF which can only DO opened
by Frank Whitney. superintendent Of the
company's patrol. The second door had .
lock, which could only DO opened by
Lewarne, while the third door was under
the charge OF Lucky. who. previous TO his
appointment as secretary pro TOM, was
superintendent OF patrol. The
boxes In which deposits are kept can only
be opened by depositors In tho presence Of
q guard. The police Of all the towns in
tho State have been notified 70 DO on the
for Duncan and Lcwarne. neither
Of whom has been soen since Saturday