The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-20
BROUGHT FROM SCOTLAND.

A BANK TELLER ARRESTED IN EUROPE FoR
FORGERY COMMITTED IN MARSHALL, MO.
william T. Johnston was a clerk teller in the
Saline County Bank in Marshall, No. in August last
He had lived in Marshall for ten years. and enjoyed
an excellent reputation for honesty and sobriety.
The bank officials trusted him implicitly. and bust
ness men pointed him out = model of commercial
enterprise and integrity to their He = tall
man. rather prepossessing in appearance. dressed
plainly as he lived and devoted every moment Of
his time and all his energy to the affairs Of
the bank. In this fatal month Of August
Mr. Johnston obtained Q leave of absence
for two weeks from the officers of the bank. He did
not return at the expiration of his leave, but that
fact did not for a weaken the confidence of
his supcriors in his integrity. little later notice
was received from the First National Bank of st.
Louis that difference of $1,000 existed in their
counts. The st. Louis bank the correspondent
of the saline County Bank and the account of the
latter was responsible tor the deficiency. An inves
tgation followed, the immediate result OF which
the discovery that one OF the blank bills OF ex
change upon the st. Louis bank had been neatly cut
from the book which contained them. and no mark
number was LETT upon the stub-for, in fact, the
stub had been cut ont with the draft These bills Of
exchange signed in blank by both the president
and cashier of the bank and all that remained to bs
done was to I'LL them up with the amount required
and make them payable to A, Is or order
FOUND OUT.
Comparisons of bills returned vouchers with
the draft book of the bank led to the discovery Of
the missing bill and the fact that il had been filled
out with an order s3.000--just the the
difference in the banks accounts. The non-appear-
ance of Johnston led to the first suspicion that he
was the culprit and the cashier OK the bank. Mr..
j. H. Cordell, in issuing circulars to the chiefs ot
police in the different cities, sent to the
Police authorities of Dumfries, Scotland, near
which town Johnston born and bred
The Chief of Police ut Dumfiics found
Johnston and sent n cablegram to Marshall 40. Cor.
DELL the cashier armed with tho necessary legal docu
ments went Scotland after his late fellow clerk,
starting the steamship Russia the ruth OF Mo-
vembcr. lie arrived at Dumtrcs on December and
identified the prisoner. The brought up
a hearing before the local magistrate ON December
TO- aud Johnston remandcd TO Jail for fifteen
days, in compliance with the British law OF extradi
tion which gives the accused that delay in order to
prepare answer to the charges. The
case was brought before Parliament and
on the I'd OF January Johnston was handed
to the CUSTODY OF Cordcl. On the ith inst they
sailed from Liverpool on the steamer Algeria, OF the
Cunard line, and they arrived at Jersey City yester
day morning. They at repaired to Taylors Hotel
where they remained till late In the afternoon. They
then took stroll about the town and finally settled
down in the Pennsylvania depot, where they waited
patiently for three hours, Johnston reading serial
story and Corcll walking about with the reporter.
Johnston, il is claimed, was drunk at the time no
committed the forgery and not only very penitcnt.
but willing to endure whatever punishment may be
inflicted by the courts.