Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-05
A BANK TELLER DISAPPEARS
And with Him Between Forty and Sixty
Thousand Dollars.
by telegraph % The Dispa,cl

LOUISVILLE. March William III. Pope
teller of the Louisville City National Bank;
trusted employee. a man Of seeming gOo1,
habits, and a frequenter of the best social
circles of this city. is gone. His absence
al the bank yesterday at first excited no
suspicion, a. # was supposed he WAS NJ ms
sick sisters bedside or III the country de-
tanned by the food. When no word was
received at 1890 O'Clock President James
S. Spirtlif, Vice-President James p.
Leroch, and Cashier W. $. Parker became
suspicious. They opened the vault and
hasty examination showed that somewhere
between $4,000 and $4,000 was missing
all in large bills The bulky gold and the
silver coin and small bills We're left intact.
1t will REQUIRE a careful examination 10
state the entire amount that Pope TOOK
with him.
ST first his friends would not believe
that Pope had gone wrong. Search by tne
bank officials soon left no doubt about the
matter, and friends began 10 search Tor
hun. thinking possibly be WAS still IN the
city. He could not be found and soon the
reporters discovered the bank robbery;
They furnished the detectives the nr-t
clue and learned that Pope had left on the
1855 o'clock train Saturday night Tor
Chicago. Il is supposed that he spcnI
Sunday with his brother, Samuel Pope, an u
left III the afternoon on the Grand lTui.S3
for Detroit and Windsor, which be cou,h
have reached in safety by 10 o'clock, ne
left the bank Saturday afternoon with MS
usual gentlomanly greeting" Good eve
ming. II any one wants mo send 70 ny
room or Telephone He was wearing ms
overcOat. His bands hung carelessly at ms
side. II is thought he must nave had TN,
money then, rs he could not have returned
before taking the tram. Pope Is q native
of this State and thirty eight years old.
II is learned later that William n. POPE
the defaulting teller OF the Louisville Clty
National Bank. did not 60 20 Chicago put
left here Saturday night for Cinclnnat'
where il Is thought he took the tram ioT
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 past he had been accumn-
lating within reach bills Of large denomlna-
tlons. Furthermore, in recent casual
conversation with T.. Grant Slaughter,
State agent for the Fidelity and Casualty
Trust Company for New York, when was
Pope's security for 10000, he had
discussed the eytradItiOn treaty and tho
degrees Of crime for which man was eX-
traditable. Pope had held that the
treaty was not vet in effect, not having
been signed by the representatives, OF the
nation. All the bank officials and CLERKS
who handle money were required to eive
bond. end he had given his through tho
Fidelity Company for S20OJ0 The LOUIS;
representative of the company, Donald
Mcpherson, and the State agent were noti-
fed. They telegraphed TO the COM
pany in New York, and sud that
their principals will spend twice
the amount of Pope's bond to secure
his arrest. 4 rumor which has not
been verified states that the carriage which
took Pope t. tine train from bis Jefferson
street room contained a woman. The bank
officials state that the amount OF the rob
berry il. in round numbers. 100000, and
that they think he carried that amount
away with him. There L. a theory that the
peculatiOns Will be found to cover period
Of several years and that Pope really car
ried very little with him. This IS denied
by the bank officials who say that has ac-
counts previous are all straight 1t has
been well known among the boys" men
about town. ETC.. that popa has been going
II nreftv stroug for several years.