Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-05
BANK TELLER GONE WRONG.
A Trusted Employee OF a Louisville Bank Miss.
ing, Likewise Some Cash-He was
Fast Liver"

LOUISVILLE, KY. March 4.-William q
Pope, teller of the Louisville city national
bank, trusted empl0ye, a man OF SEEM
ing good habits and frequenter of the
best social circles in the city, is gone.
His absence at the bank yesterday
morning at FIRST excited no suspicion, as
1t was supposed he was at his sick sister e
bedside or in the country detained by the
flood. When no word was received at
1880 O'Clock President James s. Pirtle
Vice President james S. Leech and
Cashier w. s. Parker became suspicious.
They opened the vault aud a hasty exam
tnation showed that some where between
$40 200 and $50 600 were gone. The
missing money was all large bills. All
the bulky gold and silver coin and small
bills were left intact. II will require q
careful examination to state the entire
amount that Pope took with him. At
first. his friends would not believe Pope
had gone wrong. Detectives and
friends began to search, thinking that
possibly he was still in the city. He
could not be found, and it was soon
learned that Pope had left on the "a
train Saturday night for Chicago. He
left the bank Saturday afternoon with
his usual gentlemanly greeting, 'Good
evening! If anyone wants me, send to
my room or telephone.
1t is thought he must have had the
money then, as he could not have re-
turned before taking the train. Pope is
a native of this state, and thirty eight
years old. His father, Wallace Pope, re-
sides eight miles out on the narrow gauge
railroad. He entered the bank in 1881
Is clerk, and was rapidly promoted. He
had been leading a Dr.. Jekyll aud Mr..
Hyde life for many years, as many of his
boon companions are aware. At his
room he was unusually quiet, but at
room on Jefferson street he frequently
gave wine suppers to young men of his
class and fast young women. He gam
bled, and was known as ''sucker. -
He frequently was drunk over night,
but was always at his desk promptly.
LATER PARTICULARS.
It is now learned Pope left here Satur-
day night for Cincinnati, where it is
thought he took the train for Detroit,
and is now safe in Canada. That Pope
had been contemplating this move for
some time is evident from the fact that
for some days he had been accommodating
in his reach bills of large denominations
Of from 500 TO $1,000. Furthermore,
II a very recent casual conversation with
MIR. 4. Grant Slaughter, state agent for
the Fidelity and Casualty Trust company
of New York, which was Pope's surety
for $40 600, he had discussed the extra
ditlon treaty and the degrees OF crimes
for which man way extraditable, Mr..
Pope holding that the new treaty was
not yet in effect, not having been signed
by representatives of the nation.
A rumor, which las not been verified,
states that the carriage which took Pope
to the train from his Jefferson street room
contained woman.
The bank officials state the amount of
the robbery is in round numbers $50 900,
and that they think he carried that
amount away with him. However
ignorant his employers may have been as
to Pope's habits, it has been well known
among the "boys,' linen about
town, etc., that Pope has been going
it pretty strong for several years. Though
no well defined suspicion has existed that
he he was doing crooked work, so far as
has been known, even among the best
infyrmed of his associates.